What is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting parlance. Even so, just a select few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite long story succinct, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which involves one single disk storage tool for all clients, does not convert any particular hosting company into an actual cloud hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting firms dub the ability to furnish remote data storage services a cloud hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for private or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting solution, driven by a single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the other components of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. A very meager number of web hosting suppliers can really attain it.

2. It Involves Domains, Email Boxes, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving lots of domains, online portals, email mailboxes, etc., aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing solely remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be devoted just to the electronic mail related services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or possibly a whole stack of email servers, based on the total server load produced. To have a true cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud hosting firm will support multiple datacenter facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a true cloud hosting firm:

dns1.amdiking.com

dns2.amdiking.com

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting solutions provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you perceive a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server just displays that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one server handles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not limited just to a remote disk storage solution, as lots of hosting suppliers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they merely offer file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is indeed quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one small fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will show up out of nowhere.