What Does Cloud Web Hosting Represent?

What is cloud web hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's IT, Internet and hosting terms. In spite of that, only a few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long story brief, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one disk storage appliance for all customers, does not transform any given hosting vendor into a real cloud web hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting suppliers call the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud web hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, based on a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the remaining fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very scanty number of hosting providers can really achieve it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Emails, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving numerous domain names, web portals, email mailboxes, etc., right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than distributing simply remote data storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted just to the electronic mail connected services. Performing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or maybe a whole stack of mail servers, based on the overall server load generated. To have an authentic cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real amount. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting accounts provider will support multiple server farm facility locations on multiple continents.

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

dns1.audiospecific.com

dns2.audiospecific.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of DNS merely shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted solely to a remote disk storage solution, as a lot of hosting vendors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they merely supply file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems indeed very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one small fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a number of new clouds we presently are not familiar with will spring up out of the blue.