What In Fact is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's information technology, Internet and hosting terms. However, only a select few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite long story short, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote file storage service, which comprises one file storage device for all users, does not convert any specific web hosting corporation into a genuine cloud hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting corporations call the ability to distribute remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for individual or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very small number of hosting distributors can truly make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Email Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, web portals, electronic mails, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying just remote file storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be devoted solely to the electronic mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these specific tasks. There might be only one single or possibly a whole group of mail servers, determined by the overall load created. To have a real cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud hosting vendor will support numerous data center facility locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting distributor:

dns1.www.cosmohost.org

dns2.www.cosmohost.org

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting supplier, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain 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 type of DNS only shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server handles all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted just to a remote disk storage solution, as many web hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, because they simply furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one tiny segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, possibly several brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will appear unexpectedly.