What is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's IT, Internet and hosting terminology. Nevertheless, only a select few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite long story brief, we will firstly enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage service, which involves one single file storage tool for all users, does not convert any particular hosting distributor into an authentic cloud web hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel web hosting corporations call the ability to provide remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, powered by a one-single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the other constituents of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. A very meager number of web hosting vendors can really do it.

2. It Involves Domains, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domains, web sites, e-mail box accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than delivering simply remote data storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted just to the mail related services. Doing nothing else than these particular tasks. There might be just one single or perchance a whole bundle of mail servers, based on the total load generated. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real number. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud web hosting corporation:

dns1.www.resellerspanel.online

dns2.www.resellerspanel.online

If such a DNS is provided by your hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you spot a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS only demonstrates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single server handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted just to a remote disk storage solution, as a lot of web hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting firms would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, as they simply furnish file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one tiny part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will surface out of nowhere.