What Exactly is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting lingo. Still, only a few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite long story succinct, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage service, which comprises one data storage tool for all clients, does not transform any specific web hosting distributor into an authentic cloud web hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting distributors call the ability to offer remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, powered by a one-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. Very few hosting providers can really achieve it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Electronic Mails, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving countless domain names, web portals, e-mail accounts, and so on, right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than offering plainly remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted only to the electronic mail related services. Performing nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be only one or maybe an entire assortment of electronic mail servers, based on the overall server load produced. To have an authentic cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting distributor will support numerous server farm facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an authentic cloud web hosting services provider:

dns1.hostitfor.me

dns2.hostitfor.me

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting supplier, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you perceive a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of DNS merely reveals that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not limited exclusively to a remote data storage solution, as lots of web hosting vendors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they plainly supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears indeed quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one simple fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance a few new clouds we presently are not familiar with will spring up out of nowhere.