What Does Cloud Hosting Denote?

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. Yet, only a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite long story succinct, we will firstly reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote file storage service, which involves one single data storage device for all users, does not convert any given web hosting distributor into an actual cloud web hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting distributors name the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting solution, based on a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other fractions of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. Very few hosting corporations can actually make it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage only. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving lots of domain names, sites, email box accounts, and so on, are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than delivering simply remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The email server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the electronic mail associated services. Doing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be only one single or perhaps an entire assortment of mail servers, determined by the total load created. To have an authentic cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual amount. Performing nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

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

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

dns1.safilink.com

dns2.safilink.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of DNS plainly indicates that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical machine copes with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined only to a remote data storage service, as a lot of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, because they plainly distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears really very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small fraction of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a few brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will emerge out of nowhere.