Cloud Web Hosting Definition

What is cloud web hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting parlance. Even so, only a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long story concise, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which involves one single data storage device for all users, does not turn any specific web hosting provider into an authentic cloud web hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting providers name the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, powered by a one-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining components of the whole hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very small number of hosting suppliers can really attain it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mail Boxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving many domain names, web portals, electronic mail accounts, and so on, right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than furnishing only remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated only to the mail linked services. Doing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be only one single or perhaps an entire cluster of electronic mail servers, depending on the total load created. To have an actual cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the clients' Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud web hosting firm will support multiple datacenter locations on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud web hosting packages provider:

dns1.store.hepsiagroup.com

dns2.store.hepsiagroup.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your web hosting solutions provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you see a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server only manifests that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single server is responsible for all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted solely to a remote data storage solution, as plenty of hosting service providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, because they plainly furnish file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one tiny segment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a few new clouds we presently are not aware of will emerge out of nowhere.