Cloud Web Hosting Explained

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's information technology, Internet and hosting terms. Yet, only a few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite long story concise, 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. Furnishing a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage device for all clients, does not transform any particular service provider into a real cloud web hosting services provider.

The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for individual or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting solution, driven by a single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very scanty number of web hosting suppliers can really make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting service, serving a lot of domain names, websites, email accounts, etc., are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering just remote file storage mounts (or possibly servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the mail connected services. Executing nothing different than these given assignments. There might be just one or probably an entire group of email servers, depending on the total load produced. To have a genuine cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud web hosting services provider will support multiple server farm sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a true cloud web hosting supplier:

dns1.www.nknethost.com

dns2.www.nknethost.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you perceive a DNS like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server merely demonstrates that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine copes with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited only to a remote disk storage solution, as lots of hosting companies 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 hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, as they simply provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one small component of the whole cloud 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 e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance a number of brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will spring up unexpectedly.