Cloud Hosting Explanation

What is cloud web hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's information technology, Internet and hosting terminology. In spite of that, just a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very lengthy story concise, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.

1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which involves one disk storage tool for all customers, does not convert any particular web hosting firm into an actual cloud web hosting vendor.

The cPanel hosting suppliers name the ability to furnish remote file storage services a cloud web hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote disk storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the other parts of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very scanty number of hosting providers can truly do it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, E-mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, web sites, electronic mail addresses, and so on, right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than supplying just remote file storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be dedicated exclusively to the e-mail connected services. Doing nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be just one single or perhaps an entire bunch of email servers, determined by the overall server load produced. To have a genuine cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real quantity. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting accounts provider:

dns1.webnyc.net

dns2.webnyc.net

If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting plans provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you spot a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of DNS only exhibits that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine deals with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not limited simply to a remote disk storage service, as a lot of hosting suppliers 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 a long time back! They are not classified as such, because they plainly provide file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems indeed very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one small fraction of the whole cloud web 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 File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly several new clouds we currently are not aware of will emerge unexpectedly.