What is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. However, just a select few really can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale succinct, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Only.

1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which involves one disk storage device for all users, does not transform any given hosting corporation into a genuine cloud hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel hosting corporations call the ability to supply remote file storage services a cloud hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage services for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining parts of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very meager number of hosting firms can truly make it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Mails, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving lots of domain names, web portals, electronic mail addresses, and so on, right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be dedicated only to the mail related services. Performing nothing else than these concrete tasks. There might be just one or perhaps an entire collection of mail servers, based on the overall load generated. To have a real cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

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

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud hosting plans provider:

dns1.hostunlimitted.com

dns2.hostunlimitted.com

If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you see a DNS like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly illustrates that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server deals with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote data storage service, as multiple web hosting providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they plainly furnish file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is really very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one simple part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a bunch of new clouds we presently don't know about will spring up unexpectedly.