Cloud Website Hosting Description

What is cloud web hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting parlance. Even so, only a few really can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very lengthy story brief, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which comprises one disk storage device for all customers, does not turn any particular hosting firm into an authentic cloud web hosting distributor.

The cPanel web hosting firms name the ability to offer remote file storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very small number of hosting suppliers can truly accomplish it.

2. It Includes Domains, Mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving lots of domain names, online portals, e-mailbox accounts, and so on, right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than offering just remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the email associated services. Executing nothing different than these particular tasks. There might be only one or perchance an entire cluster of e-mail servers, based on the overall load produced. To have a real cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting provider will support multiple server farm locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud web hosting distributor:

dns1.atozwebsolution.com

dns2.atozwebsolution.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you spot a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server only shows that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical server copes with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote disk storage solution, as numerous web hosting firms wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting firms would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, as they simply supply file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is really very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one tiny constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance several brand new clouds we presently don't know about will turn up out of nowhere.