What is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting phraseology. Still, just a few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long story brief, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Solely.

1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which involves one data storage device for all users, does not turn any given web hosting vendor into a genuine cloud web hosting firm.

The cPanel hosting corporations dub the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, driven by a single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining components of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very small number of web hosting vendors can truly accomplish it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, E-mail Boxes, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving a lot of domains, websites, mailboxes, etc., right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying solely remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The email server(s) must be devoted only to the e-mail related services. Doing nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be only one or perchance an entire array of e-mail servers, determined by the overall load produced. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud web hosting solutions provider:

dns1.lairmail.net

dns2.lairmail.net

If such a DNS is offered by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you see a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server plainly demonstrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server tackles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Description of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not restricted only to a remote data storage service, as plenty of web hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting companies would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly offer file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one tiny fragment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will come up out of the blue.