What Indeed is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. In spite of that, only a few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite long tale succinct, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Supplying a remote file storage service, which comprises one single disk storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any given web hosting distributor into a real cloud web hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers name the ability to furnish remote file storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote disk storage services for private or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining constituents of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very small number of web hosting vendors can really attain it.

2. It Includes Domains, E-mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, web pages, electronic mail addresses, etc., aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than distributing simply remote data storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted only to the email associated services. Performing nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be just one or possibly a whole group of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall load produced. To have an actual cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the customers' CPs, the FTP, etc.

3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting company will support numerous server farm facility sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud web hosting corporation:

dns1.060821.com

dns2.060821.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you perceive a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server plainly exhibits that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine is responsible for all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Description of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited just to a remote file storage solution, as lots of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting suppliers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly supply file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks really quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one small constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a few new clouds we presently are not familiar with will come up unexpectedly.