What Precisely is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's IT, Internet and web hosting lingo. In spite of that, just a select few really can say what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story short, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote data storage solution, which comprises one file storage tool for all clients, does not transform any given provider into a real cloud web hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting firms name the ability to provide remote data storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other parts of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. A very small number of web hosting suppliers can actually do it.

2. It Entails Domains, Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving many domain names, web portals, electronic mail addresses, etc., right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than providing solely remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted only to the electronic mail connected services. Carrying out nothing else than these concrete tasks. There might be only one or probably a whole cluster of mail servers, based on the total load produced. To have a real cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting accounts provider will support numerous server farm facility sites on different continents.

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

dns1.www.nknethost.com

dns2.www.nknethost.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you spot a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server simply exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical server handles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote data storage solution, as numerous hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting vendors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, since they simply distribute file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform is really quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one small component 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 DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance several new clouds we presently are not informed about will emerge unexpectedly.