What Actually is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terms. Nevertheless, only a few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very long story short, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Solely.

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single disk storage device for all customers, does not turn any particular provider into an actual cloud hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers dub the ability to offer remote data storage services a cloud hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote disk storage services for private or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the other parts of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. Very few web hosting corporations can truly do it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mail Boxes, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, web pages, email mailbox accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than distributing simply remote data storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The email server(s) must be devoted solely to the e-mail associated services. Doing nothing else than these given tasks. There might be only one or probably an entire collection of mail servers, based on the overall server load created. To have a real cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real number. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting accounts provider will support multiple data center facility sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a real cloud hosting firm:

dns1.hipglosspro.com

dns2.hipglosspro.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you spot a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of DNS just reveals that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server takes care of all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited simply to a remote data storage solution, as multiple web hosting firms wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting corporations would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they simply provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one simple fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a number of new clouds we currently are not aware of will surface unexpectedly.