Cloud Web Hosting Explanation

What is cloud web hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's IT, Internet and hosting parlance. However, only a select few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very lengthy story succinct, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote file storage service, which comprises one disk storage device for all users, does not convert any particular provider into an actual cloud web hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers dub the ability to provide remote file storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for individual or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting service, driven by a single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the other pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very scanty number of web hosting vendors can truly do it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Mailbox Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, websites, e-mailbox accounts, and so on, are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than providing merely remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the mail related services. Carrying out nothing different than these given procedures. There might be only one or probably an entire pack of mail servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have a genuine cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real amount. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting company:

dns1.transformahosting.com

dns2.transformahosting.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you discern a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server just reveals that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server takes care of all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted just to a remote file storage solution, as a lot of web hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, because they plainly provide file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one small constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe several brand new clouds we presently don't know about will emerge out of the blue.