What Indeed is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's computing, Internet and web hosting phraseology. In spite of that, just a select few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale concise, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage service, which involves one single disk storage device for all clients, does not transform any particular web hosting supplier into a real cloud web hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to distribute remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, based on a one-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the other pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very meager number of web hosting service providers can truly achieve it.

2. It Involves Domains, Mailbox Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving multiple domains, sites, electronic mail accounts, and so on, right?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than delivering just remote data storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The mail server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the e-mail associated services. Executing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be just one or perchance an entire array of mail servers, based on the total load generated. To have an authentic cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual number. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting firm will support numerous data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud web hosting company:

dns1.lazypanel.com

dns2.lazypanel.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server plainly demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical server handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined only to a remote file storage solution, as multiple web hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting service providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, as they simply offer file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems really quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one simple segment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, maybe a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will appear out of the blue.