What Precisely is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting parlance. Yet, only a select few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale concise, we will first notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which comprises one data storage device for all clients, does not transform any particular hosting company into an actual cloud hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to supply remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, based on a one-single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the other components of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very scanty number of hosting suppliers can really make it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving numerous domains, web pages, email box accounts, etc., aren't we?

To name a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than offering plainly remote data storage mounts (or perchance servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be devoted solely to the electronic mail related services. Carrying out nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be only one or possibly an entire bunch of email servers, based on the overall server load generated. To have an actual cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting corporation will support multiple datacenter sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a real cloud hosting provider:

dns1.grupokaizenmexico.com

dns2.grupokaizenmexico.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting plans provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you perceive a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of DNS plainly reveals that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server takes care of all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not confined simply to a remote disk storage solution, as many web hosting providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file service providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they plainly offer file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small segment 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 DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a number of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will emerge out of nowhere.