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Cloud Web Hosting Unveiled

What is cloud web hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's information technology, Internet and hosting terminology. Nonetheless, only a few really can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale concise, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.

1. Providing a remote data storage service, which comprises one file storage appliance for all users, does not convert any particular service provider into an actual cloud web hosting distributor.

The cPanel web hosting companies dub the ability to offer remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for private or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other fractions of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. Very few web hosting vendors can truly accomplish it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mail Boxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, sites, email accounts, etc., are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing only remote data storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) need to be dedicated only to the electronic mail connected services. Executing nothing else than these specific procedures. There might be only one single or possibly a whole pack of mail servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have an actual cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real quantity. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an actual cloud web hosting supplier:


dns1.www.rosegoldproduction.com

dns2.www.rosegoldproduction.com


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


dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com


that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server merely exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single server takes care of all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined only to a remote disk storage solution, as numerous hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, since they simply deliver file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears indeed very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one simple segment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found 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 email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps several brand new clouds we presently don't know about will turn up unexpectedly.