What Precisely is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. Even so, just a select few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite long story concise, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage service, which comprises one disk storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any given web hosting company into a real cloud web hosting vendor.

The cPanel hosting suppliers name the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for personal or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other constituents of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very scanty number of hosting corporations can really achieve it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Email Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving lots of domain names, web pages, mailboxes, etc., aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than delivering simply remote file storage mounts (or possibly servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated just to the e-mail related services. Performing nothing else than these specific procedures. There might be only one single or maybe a whole array of electronic mail servers, based on the overall load produced. To have an actual cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual number. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud web hosting vendor will support numerous datacenter locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of a real cloud web hosting supplier:

dns1.gagserver.com

dns2.gagserver.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting plans provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you observe a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of DNS only displays that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical server deals with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited solely to a remote disk storage solution, as plenty of hosting corporations wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, because they plainly supply file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform is 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 just one simple segment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will come up unexpectedly.