What is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's computing, Internet and web hosting jargon. Still, just a select few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long tale brief, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote file storage service, which comprises one file storage appliance for all customers, does not transform any specific web hosting provider into a genuine cloud web hosting company.

The cPanel hosting providers dub the ability to offer remote data storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote file storage services for private or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the entire web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very meager number of hosting service providers can really do it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving numerous domains, web portals, email mailboxes, etc., aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than offering solely remote data storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated solely to the email related services. Doing nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be just one single or perchance an entire cluster of email servers, determined by the total server load produced. To have a real cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real amount. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting provider will support numerous server farm facility locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud web hosting accounts provider:

dns1.www.brehost.com

dns2.www.brehost.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your web hosting solutions provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you perceive a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server merely shows that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined only to a remote disk storage solution, as lots of web hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting suppliers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, as they plainly furnish file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is indeed quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one tiny segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance a bunch of new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will appear out of nowhere.