Cloud Web Hosting Definition

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What is cloud web hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. However, only a select few really know what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long tale brief, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single data storage device for all clients, does not turn any particular hosting provider into a real cloud web hosting supplier.

The cPanel hosting companies call the ability to distribute remote data storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the other constituents of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very tough. Very few web hosting firms can truly make it.

2. It Entails Domains, Email Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving countless domain names, websites, e-mail aliases, etc., right?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than providing merely remote disk storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the e-mail linked services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific procedures. There might be just one single or maybe an entire stack of electronic mail servers, depending on the total load produced. To have a real cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' web hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting solutions provider will support numerous server farm locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of a real cloud web hosting vendor:


dns1.www.webhostingandservers.com

dns2.www.webhostingandservers.com


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


dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com


that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS just illustrates that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server copes with all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined solely to a remote file storage service, as lots of web hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, since they plainly offer file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is really quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one simple part of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance several brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will turn up out of nowhere.

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