Cloud Hosting Defined

What is cloud web hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting parlance. Nevertheless, just a select few really can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite long story brief, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which involves one file storage device for all customers, does not turn any particular hosting distributor into a genuine cloud web hosting packages provider.

The cPanel hosting suppliers dub the ability to supply remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for private or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, based on a one-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the other parts of the whole hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very scanty number of web hosting companies can truly achieve it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domains, web portals, mailbox accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing merely remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the mail associated services. Performing nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be only one or probably an entire assortment of electronic mail servers, based on the overall load created. To have an actual cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the users' CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting accounts provider will support multiple server farm sites on different continents.

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

dns1.unlimitedresellerwebhosting.com

dns2.unlimitedresellerwebhosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you perceive a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server only reveals that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine takes care of all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined only to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of hosting service providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting firms would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they merely supply file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems really quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one small component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a few brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will appear out of the blue.