What Precisely is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting actually? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's IT, Internet and web hosting terms. Still, only a select few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long story succinct, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.

1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one data storage device for all users, does not convert any given web hosting service provider into a genuine cloud web hosting services provider. The cPanel web hosting suppliers dub the ability to distribute remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting service, powered by a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. Very few hosting providers can really make it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving many domain names, online portals, electronic mails, etc., right? To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or possibly servers). The email server(s) must be devoted just to the electronic mail related services. Doing nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be only one single or probably an entire bunch of e-mail servers, determined by the total server load produced. To have a real cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual amount. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting packages provider will support multiple datacenter facility sites on different continents. Here's an instance of a DNS of an actual cloud web hosting vendor: dns1.best-hosting.us dns2.best-hosting.us If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be sure when you see a DNS like the one beneath: dns658.hostgator.com dns659.hostgator.com that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server simply displays that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(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 restricted just to a remote data storage solution, as numerous hosting distributors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting service providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, since they plainly distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is indeed quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one tiny fraction of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a few brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will emerge out of nowhere.