What Precisely is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's information technology, Internet and hosting parlance. Even so, just a select few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very long tale short, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which involves one single data storage device for all users, does not convert any particular web hosting vendor into an authentic cloud hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting distributors dub the ability to provide remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote data storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the other constituents of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very small number of web hosting vendors can truly achieve it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving numerous domains, web sites, email accounts, etc., right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than furnishing merely remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted solely to the electronic mail related services. Performing nothing else than these given assignments. There might be just one single or probably an entire bunch of e-mail servers, based on the overall load generated. To have an authentic cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting vendor will support numerous datacenter facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud hosting distributor:

dns1.test2.ipguide.in

dns2.test2.ipguide.in

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you notice a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server merely exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server deals with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not limited simply to a remote data storage solution, as many web hosting distributors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they plainly offer file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is really quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one small constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, probably a couple of new clouds we presently don't know about will show up out of nowhere.