Cloud Hosting Description

What is cloud web hosting really? The word 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. However, only a select few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite long tale concise, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote data storage service, which comprises one single file storage tool for all users, does not turn any given web hosting company into an actual cloud web hosting corporation.

The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to deliver remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the remaining fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very scanty number of web hosting corporations can really make it.

2. It Entails Domains, E-mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving many domains, online portals, electronic mails, and so on, aren't we?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than offering solely remote file storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be devoted just to the mail associated services. Carrying out nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be only one or probably an entire set of email servers, depending on the overall load produced. To have a genuine cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their actual number. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' 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 packages provider will support multiple datacenter facility locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of a real cloud web hosting distributor:

dns1.nuvulu.com

dns2.nuvulu.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server plainly exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine tackles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as a lot of web hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, because they merely furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems really very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one tiny constituent 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 File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will turn up unexpectedly.