Cloud Web Hosting Explanation

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting parlance. In spite of that, only a select few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite long tale brief, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote file storage service, which comprises one single file storage appliance for all users, does not convert any particular hosting service provider into an authentic cloud web hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers dub the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for personal or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, based on a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very small number of web hosting corporations can actually do it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Email Boxes, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote data storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving countless domains, sites, electronic mails, and so on, are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than offering only remote data storage mounts (or possibly servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted solely to the electronic mail connected services. Performing nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be just one or maybe an entire set of e-mail servers, based on the overall load produced. To have a real cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' web hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting services provider will support numerous data center facility locations on multiple continents.

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

dns1.gulfnetlink.com

dns2.gulfnetlink.com

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you observe a Domain Name Server such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS only reveals that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine copes with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined only to a remote disk storage solution, as many hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting companies would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, since they plainly distribute file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is really very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one simple component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will show up out of nowhere.