Explanation of Cloud Hosting

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's IT, Internet and web hosting phraseology. Yet, just a few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite long tale short, we will firstly enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote file storage solution, which comprises one single file storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any particular hosting supplier into an actual cloud web hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting distributors dub the ability to provide remote file storage services a cloud web hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining parts of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely tough. A very meager number of hosting vendors can actually make it.

2. It Involves Domains, Email Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domains, sites, e-mail addresses, and so on, right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than offering plainly remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be devoted only to the mail related services. Carrying out nothing different than these given assignments. There might be only one or maybe an entire bundle of mail servers, based on the overall load produced. To have an actual cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the users' web hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting vendor will support multiple datacenter facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud web hosting vendor:

dns1.mnistrathosting.co.uk

dns2.mnistrathosting.co.uk

If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting services provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform 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 exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single server copes with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined solely to a remote disk storage service, as lots of web hosting distributors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply deliver file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one simple fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps several brand new clouds we presently don't know about will surface out of nowhere.