Cloud Web Hosting Explanation

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's computing, Internet and hosting phraseology. However, just a few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story succinct, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one single file storage device for all users, does not transform any particular web hosting distributor into a real cloud web hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting companies dub the ability to deliver remote data storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote disk storage services for individual or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the remaining constituents of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. Very few web hosting vendors can really achieve it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, E-mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving lots of domain names, web sites, mail aliases, etc., aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than providing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or possibly servers). The email server(s) must be devoted just to the e-mail associated services. Doing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be just one or perchance an entire cluster of email servers, determined by the overall load created. To have an actual cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual number. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the users' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.

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

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an actual cloud web hosting solutions provider:

dns1.fresh-looks.reseller-hosting-themes.com

dns2.fresh-looks.reseller-hosting-themes.com

If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you see a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server plainly indicates that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single server deals with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited just to a remote disk storage solution, as numerous web hosting distributors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting companies would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they merely offer file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform appears indeed quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one tiny constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a couple of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will come up unexpectedly.