What Does Cloud Hosting Stand for?

What is cloud web hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's information technology, Internet and hosting terminology. Still, just a few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which comprises one file storage device for all customers, does not convert any specific service provider into a real cloud web hosting distributor.

The cPanel web hosting corporations call the ability to provide remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting service, powered by a one-single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very small number of web hosting providers can actually attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage only. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, web portals, e-mailbox accounts, etc., are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than furnishing only remote file storage mounts (or possibly servers). The mail server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the electronic mail associated services. Doing nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be only one single or perchance an entire pack of e-mail servers, based on the total server load produced. To have a real cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual number. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud web hosting solutions provider:

dns1.hostitfor.me

dns2.hostitfor.me

If such a DNS is offered by your web hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you perceive a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of DNS merely demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server copes with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not limited simply to a remote disk storage solution, as multiple web hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they merely distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform looks really very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one simple part of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a number of new clouds we currently don't know about will appear unexpectedly.