Cloud Hosting Explanation

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's computing, Internet and hosting terminology. Even so, only a select few actually know what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite lengthy 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 Only.

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one file storage tool for all clients, does not turn any particular service provider into an actual cloud web hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting companies name the ability to offer remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for private or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other constituents of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very scanty number of web hosting corporations can actually make it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Email Aliases, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving lots of domains, online portals, mailbox aliases, and so on, aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than offering merely remote file storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted exclusively to the e-mail connected services. Executing nothing different than these particular tasks. There might be only one or maybe a whole collection of email servers, depending on the total server load generated. To have an authentic cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud web hosting distributor:

dns1.www.ircmru.com

dns2.www.ircmru.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting accounts 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 Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS only shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server tackles all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), web files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not limited just to a remote data storage service, as plenty of hosting corporations wish it was. Sadly 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 categorized as such, since they simply distribute file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems indeed quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, perchance a bunch of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will surface unexpectedly.