Cloud Web Hosting Description

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's computing, Internet and hosting jargon. However, only a few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very lengthy story short, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote disk storage solution, which involves one single file storage appliance for all users, does not transform any specific hosting distributor into a genuine cloud web hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting companies dub the ability to provide remote file storage services 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 solutions for personal or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, based on a one-single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining pieces of the whole hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. A very small number of hosting providers can truly attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving multiple domain names, web pages, mailbox accounts, etc., right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than providing only remote disk storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted solely to the e-mail related services. Executing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be just one single or possibly an entire group of electronic mail servers, based on the total server load created. To have a real cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real number. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the users' CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting supplier will support numerous data center facility locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an authentic cloud web hosting services provider:

dns1.primehost.com.ng

dns2.primehost.com.ng

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your web hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you observe a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server simply shows that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not limited exclusively to a remote data storage service, as numerous web hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file service providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they simply provide file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears really very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one tiny fragment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a few new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will turn up out of the blue.