Cloud Web Hosting Description

What is cloud web hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's computing, Internet and hosting parlance. Even so, just a select few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long tale concise, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which involves one data storage tool for all clients, does not turn any particular hosting supplier into a genuine cloud web hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting corporations dub the ability to deliver remote file storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for private or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining fractions of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very scanty number of web hosting suppliers can actually do it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Emails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving countless domain names, sites, electronic mail addresses, etc., right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than furnishing only remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the e-mail related services. Doing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one or maybe a whole group of electronic mail servers, depending on the total load created. To have an actual cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their actual amount. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting vendor:

dns1.webtanium.com

dns2.webtanium.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of DNS simply shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server deals with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined exclusively to a remote data storage service, as many web hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting firms would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they merely offer file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears indeed quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one small fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a couple of new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will appear out of the blue.