What Exactly is Cloud Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting parlance. Nevertheless, just a select few really can say what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very lengthy story concise, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote file storage service, which involves one single file storage tool for all customers, does not turn any specific web hosting provider into an actual cloud web hosting firm.

The cPanel hosting suppliers name the ability to supply remote file storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for private or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, based on a single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the other fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very scanty number of web hosting distributors can really accomplish it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Email Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domain names, web portals, mail aliases, and so on, right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than furnishing simply remote file storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the electronic mail connected services. Doing nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be only one or possibly an entire bunch of mail servers, determined by the overall load produced. To have a genuine cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting packages provider will support multiple data center facility locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an authentic cloud web hosting plans provider:

dns1.sonnyserver.com.ng

dns2.sonnyserver.com.ng

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your web hosting provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you discern a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS merely exhibits that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server copes with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined just to a remote data storage solution, as a lot of hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file service providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they simply deliver file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform looks really very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one tiny segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe a number of new clouds we presently are not aware of will show up unexpectedly.