Cloud Web Hosting Definition

What is cloud web hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terminology. Yet, only a select few really know what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which involves one single file storage device for all customers, does not transform any specific hosting firm into an authentic cloud web hosting vendor.

The cPanel hosting firms dub the ability to provide remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the other components of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very small number of web hosting service providers can actually accomplish it.

2. It Includes Domains, Email Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving a lot of domain names, web pages, mailboxes, and so on, are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than supplying merely remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated exclusively to the email linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these given assignments. There might be just one or possibly a whole stack of email servers, determined by the overall load generated. To have an authentic cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real number. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the users' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

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

Here's an example of a DNS of an authentic cloud web hosting supplier:

dns1.tripleohosting.com

dns2.tripleohosting.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you discern a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of DNS merely indicates that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical server takes care of all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited only to a remote file storage service, as numerous web hosting distributors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting companies would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, as they plainly offer file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform is really very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, probably a few new clouds we presently are not familiar with will appear out of the blue.