What Does Cloud Hosting Stand for?

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's IT, Internet and web hosting parlance. In spite of that, only a few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long story succinct, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote data storage service, which comprises one disk storage device for all users, does not convert any specific hosting provider into a real cloud web hosting provider.

The cPanel hosting suppliers name the ability to furnish remote file storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, based on a one-single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the other fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very small number of hosting service providers can truly attain it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Email Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote file storage only. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving many domains, web portals, emails, and so on, aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than delivering only remote data storage mounts (or probably servers). The email server(s) have to be dedicated just to the email associated services. Carrying out nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be only one or possibly an entire array of email servers, determined by the overall server load created. To have a real cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual number. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud web hosting vendor will support numerous server farm locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting company:

dns1.hosting.axonbi.com

dns2.hosting.axonbi.com

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your web hosting plans provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you discern a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server merely illustrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one server handles all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote data storage service, as multiple web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they merely supply file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is really quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one simple fraction of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, perchance a bunch of new clouds we currently are not aware of will show up out of nowhere.