Cloud Web Hosting Description

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting jargon. Nonetheless, just a few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Disk Storage Only.

1. Providing a remote data storage solution, which comprises one file storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any given web hosting service provider into an authentic cloud web hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to supply remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for personal or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining constituents of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very meager number of web hosting providers can actually make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Email Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage only. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domains, online portals, mail accounts, etc., are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or maybe servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the e-mail associated services. Doing nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be only one or probably an entire array of mail servers, determined by the total server load generated. To have an authentic cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real number. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

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

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting plans provider:

dns1.sciservers.com

dns2.sciservers.com

If such a DNS is offered by your web hosting distributor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you perceive a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS merely demonstrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine copes with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined solely to a remote data storage solution, as a lot of hosting distributors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they merely offer file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is really very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one tiny constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, maybe a number of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will turn up unexpectedly.