Cloud Web Hosting Definition
What is cloud web hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's IT, Internet and web hosting lingo. Even so, just a select few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very lengthy story concise, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Solely.
1. Supplying a remote data storage service, which comprises one single data storage tool for all users, does not convert any given web hosting provider into an actual cloud web hosting services provider.
The cPanel web hosting distributors name the ability to supply remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote disk storage services for private or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, driven by a one-single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other constituents of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very meager number of web hosting corporations can really achieve it.
2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.
Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving countless domain names, sites, email aliases, and so on, right?
To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than supplying solely remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted solely to the mail related services. Performing nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or maybe a whole pack of e-mail servers, based on the total server load created. To have a genuine cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud web hosting services provider will support numerous server farm facility sites on multiple continents.
Here's an instance of a DNS of an actual cloud web hosting solutions provider:
dns1.wd3web.com
dns2.wd3web.com
If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of DNS plainly indicates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server deals with all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), web site files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined just to a remote file storage solution, as a lot of hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, since they simply supply file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems really quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one tiny component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, probably a couple of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will emerge unexpectedly.