Cloud Web Hosting Definition

What is cloud web hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. However, just a few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long story short, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Solely.

1. Supplying a remote data storage service, which involves one single data storage tool for all users, does not turn any given web hosting company into an authentic cloud web hosting provider.

The cPanel hosting firms name the ability to distribute remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the other parts of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. Very few hosting firms can actually achieve it.

2. It Entails Domains, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving many domain names, online portals, e-mail addresses, and so on, are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing solely remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the e-mail linked services. Carrying out nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be just one single or maybe an entire cluster of email servers, based on the overall load created. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real quantity. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud web hosting accounts provider will support multiple datacenter facility locations on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a genuine cloud web hosting plans provider:


dns1.www.webhostingandservers.com

dns2.www.webhostingandservers.com


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


dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com


that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server only displays that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine is responsible for all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted simply to a remote data storage solution, as plenty of web hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, since they plainly furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is indeed quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one tiny fraction of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, maybe a number of new clouds we presently don't know about will come up unexpectedly.