Explanation of Cloud Web Hosting

What is cloud web hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. In spite of that, just a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long story concise, we will firstly reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one data storage tool for all customers, does not turn any particular service provider into an authentic cloud web hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers call the ability to deliver remote file storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for individual or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting solution, based on a one-single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the remaining constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very small number of hosting firms can really accomplish it.

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

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving a lot of domains, web pages, email boxes, and so on, right?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than delivering solely remote file storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the e-mail related services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific tasks. There might be only one single or perhaps a whole cluster of electronic mail servers, based on the overall load produced. To have a genuine cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real number. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting services provider will support numerous server farm facility sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a real cloud web hosting vendor:

dns1.red1rebel.com

dns2.red1rebel.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be certain when you perceive a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of DNS only illustrates that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single server handles all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined just to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, since they simply distribute file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears really very simple, in comparison with the 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 Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a bunch of new clouds we presently don't know about will show up out of the blue.