Description of Cloud Web Hosting

What is cloud web hosting really? The word 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terms. Even so, only a select few really can say what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long story concise, we will firstly enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote data storage service, which comprises one single file storage tool for all clients, does not turn any specific hosting corporation into a genuine cloud web hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting providers name the ability to deliver remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining constituents of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. Very few web hosting vendors can truly attain it.

2. It Involves Domains, Emails, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving lots of domain names, web sites, e-mail addresses, etc., aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than delivering plainly remote data storage mounts (or probably servers). The e-mail server(s) must be dedicated solely to the email associated services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific tasks. There might be just one or maybe an entire stack of email servers, depending 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 number. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud web hosting packages provider:

dns1.elasticsrv.com

dns2.elasticsrv.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform 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 platform. This kind of Domain Name Server merely exhibits that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine is responsible for all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote data storage solution, as many hosting distributors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting companies would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly distribute file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks indeed very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one tiny part of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly a bunch of new clouds we currently don't know about will show up out of nowhere.