Cloud Web Hosting Explanation

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's computing, Internet and hosting parlance. Nevertheless, just a select few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long tale concise, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote file storage solution, which involves one single data storage appliance for all users, does not turn any given hosting vendor into a genuine cloud web hosting supplier.

The cPanel hosting firms call the ability to deliver remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the remaining constituents of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very small number of web hosting suppliers can truly attain it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Mailbox Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving many domain names, web sites, email aliases, and so on, aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying only remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The email server(s) have to be devoted solely to the e-mail linked services. Performing nothing else than these given assignments. There might be just one single or maybe a whole assortment of e-mail servers, based on the overall server load created. To have an authentic cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real number. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the users' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting provider will support numerous server farm sites on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of an authentic cloud web hosting services provider:

dns1.webnyc.net

dns2.webnyc.net

If such a DNS is provided by your hosting solutions provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you perceive a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of DNS simply exhibits that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server copes with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited just to a remote file storage solution, as a lot of hosting suppliers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting firms would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they plainly provide file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears indeed quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one simple component of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe a number of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will appear out of the blue.