Explanation of Cloud Web Hosting

What is cloud web hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting parlance. Still, just a select few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale concise, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Disk Storage Solely.

1. Supplying a remote disk storage service, which involves one single disk storage appliance for all clients, does not transform any specific web hosting provider into an authentic cloud web hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting distributors name the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote disk storage services for personal or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, based on a one-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very small number of hosting companies can truly make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving numerous domain names, online portals, email mailboxes, etc., aren't we?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than offering merely remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) must be devoted only to the electronic mail connected services. Carrying out nothing different than these given procedures. There might be only one single or possibly a whole array of email servers, based on the total server load created. To have a genuine cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real number. Carrying out nothing different. 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 actual cloud web hosting packages provider will support numerous datacenter facility sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of a genuine cloud web hosting services provider:

dns1.infogatehosting.com

dns2.infogatehosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you see a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server just demonstrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical machine copes with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not limited simply to a remote data storage solution, as many hosting vendors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, since they merely offer file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform looks indeed very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one small component of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance a bunch of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will turn up out of nowhere.