What Actually is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting parlance. However, just a select few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale succinct, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Solely.

1. Furnishing a remote file storage service, which involves one data storage device for all customers, does not transform any particular hosting company into a genuine cloud web hosting vendor.

The cPanel hosting suppliers dub the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, powered by a single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. A very small number of web hosting firms can actually do it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Emails, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving many domains, online portals, email box accounts, etc., are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than offering plainly remote data storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the e-mail connected services. Executing nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be only one or perhaps a whole bundle of e-mail servers, depending on the overall load generated. To have a genuine cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real number. Performing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' 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 distributor will support multiple server farm facility locations on different continents.

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

dns1.wisehost.ca

dns2.wisehost.ca

If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you perceive a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of DNS only indicates that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine deals with all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as many web hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting service providers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, because they merely furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one simple fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a couple of new clouds we currently are not aware of will spring up unexpectedly.