What Does Cloud Web Hosting Represent?

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting lingo. Even so, just a few actually know what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale concise, we will first describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote file storage solution, which comprises one data storage device for all clients, does not transform any specific hosting provider into a real cloud web hosting provider.

The cPanel hosting distributors dub the ability to furnish remote data storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting solution, based on a single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the remaining pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. Very few hosting firms can truly achieve it.

2. It Involves Domains, Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving many domain names, sites, email addresses, and so on, aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than furnishing plainly remote data storage mounts (or probably servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the electronic mail connected services. Doing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be just one single or possibly a whole bunch of email servers, depending on the overall load created. To have an authentic cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real number. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the users' CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting services provider will support multiple datacenter sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud web hosting packages provider:

dns1.billing.hostprod.com

dns2.billing.hostprod.com

If such a DNS is offered by your web hosting plans provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

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

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited solely to a remote disk storage solution, as many web hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly supply file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform is really very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one small fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty 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 email cloud and... in the not too distant future, maybe a bunch of new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will emerge unexpectedly.