Cloud Hosting Explanation

What is cloud web hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting jargon. Nevertheless, only a select few really know what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story succinct, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.

1. Providing a remote data storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage device for all clients, does not convert any given hosting service provider into an actual cloud web hosting firm.

The cPanel hosting distributors dub the ability to distribute remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote disk storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, based on a one-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other fractions of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. A very meager number of hosting firms can really achieve it.

2. It Entails Domains, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting service, serving a lot of domain names, web pages, mails, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than supplying plainly remote data storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The email server(s) have to be devoted solely to the electronic mail connected services. Executing nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be just one or perhaps an entire set of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall load produced. To have an actual cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) too.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting provider will support multiple datacenter facility sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a real cloud web hosting vendor:

dns1.webhosttool.com

dns2.webhosttool.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you see a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of DNS plainly shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one server tackles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted solely to a remote data storage solution, as lots of hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file service providers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, since they merely offer file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one tiny fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a few new clouds we currently are not informed about will surface unexpectedly.