Cloud Hosting Description

What is cloud web hosting really? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's computing, Internet and hosting terminology. In spite of that, only a select few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite long story concise, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which involves one single disk storage tool for all users, does not convert any given hosting provider into a genuine cloud web hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting corporations call the ability to provide remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very meager number of hosting distributors can really attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving numerous domains, websites, email mailbox accounts, etc., are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than delivering merely remote file storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted exclusively to the electronic mail related services. Doing nothing else than these given tasks. There might be just one or perchance a whole bunch of email servers, determined by the total load generated. To have a real cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real number. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the users' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud web hosting plans provider:

dns1.rmhhosting.com

dns2.rmhhosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting solutions provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you notice a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server merely shows that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine tackles all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as plenty of hosting vendors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting corporations would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, since they simply offer file hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears really very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one tiny fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance several brand new clouds we presently don't know about will appear out of nowhere.