What is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting really? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. However, just a few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very lengthy tale concise, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote disk storage service, which involves one single data storage appliance for all clients, does not transform any particular hosting supplier into a real cloud web hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting vendors name the ability to furnish remote file storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote data storage services for individual or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the remaining parts of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very meager number of hosting providers can actually make it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Electronic Mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving numerous domain names, sites, email addresses, etc., are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than offering just remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the email linked services. Performing nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be just one or possibly an entire stack of electronic mail servers, based on the total server load generated. To have an actual cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real amount. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the users' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud web hosting plans provider will support numerous server farm sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud web hosting services provider:

dns1.hostroadway.com

dns2.hostroadway.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting distributor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you spot a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of DNS simply indicates that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical server tackles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote data storage solution, as lots of hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they merely deliver file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks really very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one simple component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, probably a number of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will surface out of the blue.