What Precisely is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's IT, Internet and web hosting phraseology. Still, just a few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite long story concise, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Only.

1. Supplying a remote data storage solution, which comprises one data storage appliance for all clients, does not turn any specific web hosting service provider into an actual cloud web hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting vendors name the ability to distribute remote data storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote file storage services for individual or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining parts of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very scanty number of web hosting suppliers can actually do it.

2. It Involves Domains, Electronic Mail Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domain names, web sites, mail addresses, and so on, are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than distributing just remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted solely to the mail connected services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be just one or probably an entire collection of mail servers, based on the total load generated. To have a real cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real number. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

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

Here's an instance of a DNS of a genuine cloud web hosting plans provider:

dns1.hosting.axonbi.com

dns2.hosting.axonbi.com

If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you spot a DNS like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of DNS simply illustrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single server deals with all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited just to a remote file storage solution, as lots of hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they plainly provide file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems indeed very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one small part of the whole cloud 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 DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, maybe a bunch of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will emerge out of the blue.