What is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. Even so, only a select few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long story brief, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote data storage service, which comprises one data storage tool for all customers, does not transform any particular hosting provider into an authentic cloud web hosting corporation.

The cPanel web hosting firms dub the ability to offer remote data storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage services for individual or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, powered by a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining pieces of the entire hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. Very few web hosting distributors can actually achieve it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mail Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, online portals, email addresses, and so on, right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than providing merely remote disk storage mounts (or perchance servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted only to the mail connected services. Performing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be just one or perchance an entire bundle of mail servers, based on the total server load created. To have an authentic cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud web hosting services provider will support numerous data center facility sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting firm:

dns1.threemen.net

dns2.threemen.net

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting services provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you spot a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS just reveals that the hosting platform 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, one single physical server copes with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited solely to a remote disk storage solution, as plenty of web hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting companies would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, because they simply supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is indeed very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one simple part of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance a number of new clouds we currently are not aware of will turn up out of nowhere.