Definition of Cloud Web Hosting

What is cloud web hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. Still, only a few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very lengthy story succinct, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Supplying a remote data storage solution, which comprises one file storage device for all customers, does not turn any specific web hosting service provider into an authentic cloud web hosting packages provider.

The cPanel hosting corporations dub the ability to distribute remote data storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very small number of hosting firms can really achieve it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Mailbox Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domains, online portals, mailbox accounts, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than providing merely remote file storage mounts (or possibly servers). The mail server(s) need to be dedicated exclusively to the email linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these particular tasks. There might be just one or perhaps a whole assortment of email servers, determined by the total server load generated. To have a real cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual number. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

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

Here's an instance of a DNS of an authentic cloud web hosting distributor:

dns1.tmcaribbean.com

dns2.tmcaribbean.com

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting solutions provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you see a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of DNS plainly displays that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one server copes with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined only to a remote disk storage service, as a lot of web hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly deliver file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems indeed very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one simple part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a number of brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will surface out of nowhere.