What In Fact is Cloud Web Hosting?
What is cloud web hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's computing, Internet and hosting parlance. Even so, only a select few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite long tale short, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.
1. Providing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single disk storage device for all clients, does not transform any specific hosting supplier into a genuine cloud web hosting vendor.
The cPanel web hosting vendors dub the ability to supply remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, powered by a single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining components of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very scanty number of service providers can truly do it.
2. It Entails Domain Names, E-mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.
Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving many domain names, sites, e-mail boxes, and so on, right?
To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than offering just remote disk storage mounts (or maybe servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted solely to the electronic mail related services. Performing nothing different than these specific tasks. There might be just one or perchance a whole array of mail servers, depending on the total load generated. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real amount. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' CPs, the FTP, and so on.
3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) too.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting distributor will support numerous server farm facility locations on different continents.
Here's an instance of a DNS of a genuine cloud web hosting solutions provider:
dns1.fresh-looks.reseller-hosting-themes.com
dns2.fresh-looks.reseller-hosting-themes.com
If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you perceive a DNS like the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server only manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server tackles all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web site files, etc.).
Remote File Storage - The Twisted Interpretation of Cloud Web Hosting.
So, a cloud web hosting service is not restricted simply to a remote disk storage solution, as a lot of hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, since they merely distribute file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems really quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one simple segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe several brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will come up out of nowhere.