Definition of Cloud Web Hosting

What is cloud web hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's IT, Internet and web hosting phraseology. Yet, just a select few really know what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story brief, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote file storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage tool for all customers, does not convert any given hosting distributor into a genuine cloud web hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting distributors dub the ability to supply remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote data storage services for personal or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, powered by a single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining constituents of the whole hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. A very scanty number of hosting corporations can really make it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Email Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving multiple domains, websites, electronic mail addresses, etc., aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing solely remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted only to the email linked services. Doing nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be only one or perhaps an entire array of e-mail servers, depending on the total load generated. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the users' hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting corporation will support numerous server farm facility sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting services provider:

dns1.hostingampm.com

dns2.hostingampm.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of DNS plainly illustrates that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single server copes with all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not limited only to a remote data storage service, as plenty of hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting corporations would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they plainly distribute file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems indeed quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one small constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a few new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will emerge unexpectedly.