Cloud Web Hosting Description

What is cloud web hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's computing, Internet and hosting jargon. Nevertheless, just a select few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long tale short, we will first describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one file storage tool for all clients, does not turn any specific hosting service provider into a real cloud web hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting firms name the ability to provide remote file storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other parts of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very small number of web hosting service providers can really attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote file storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving plenty of domains, web portals, electronic mail aliases, and so on, are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than delivering just remote data storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated solely to the mail related services. Doing nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be only one or possibly an entire array of e-mail servers, depending on the total load generated. To have a real cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual number. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the users' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting accounts provider will support multiple data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a genuine cloud web hosting corporation:

dns1.hostrite.net

dns2.hostrite.net

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting plans provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you observe a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server plainly exhibits that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single server is responsible for all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited only to a remote data storage service, as lots of hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, since they simply offer file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, perchance a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will surface unexpectedly.