What is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting lingo. In spite of that, only a select few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite long tale succinct, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one data storage device for all users, does not transform any given web hosting supplier into an authentic cloud web hosting packages provider.

The cPanel hosting suppliers name the ability to provide remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote file storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, based on a one-single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other parts of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very meager number of hosting companies can really make it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Email Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving plenty of domain names, web pages, email mailboxes, etc., are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than furnishing simply remote data storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted exclusively to the e-mail related services. Executing nothing else than these given tasks. There might be only one or probably an entire collection of email servers, based on the overall load produced. To have an actual cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud web hosting company will support multiple data center locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting distributor:

dns1.nelsonshosting.com

dns2.nelsonshosting.com

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you perceive a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server only displays that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical server deals with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as lots of hosting vendors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, as they merely offer file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform looks really quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one tiny fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance a number of new clouds we presently don't know about will spring up unexpectedly.