How Cloud Web Hosting Functions

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's IT, Internet and hosting jargon. Yet, just a select few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite long story concise, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Disk Storage Solely.

1. Supplying a remote data storage service, which involves one single disk storage appliance for all users, does not transform any particular web hosting distributor into a real cloud web hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting corporations dub the ability to provide remote file storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote data storage services for personal or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, based on a one-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the other parts of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very small number of hosting vendors can truly achieve it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, sites, e-mail boxes, etc., aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than distributing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the email linked services. Performing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be only one single or maybe a whole array of mail servers, based on the overall server load created. To have a genuine cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real number. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the users' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting accounts provider will support numerous data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a real cloud web hosting services provider:

dns1.next-level.reseller-hosting-themes.com

dns2.next-level.reseller-hosting-themes.com

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting supplier, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you see a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server only shows that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine copes with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote file storage solution, as numerous web hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting firms would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, as they merely supply file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's simply one simple component of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, possibly a few brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will appear out of nowhere.