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Cloud Web Hosting Description

What is cloud hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. Nevertheless, just a few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story brief, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote file storage solution, which comprises one single data storage device for all customers, does not turn any given web hosting firm into an authentic cloud hosting services provider.

The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to provide remote file storage services a cloud hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, based on a one-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the other pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very small number of hosting service providers can really attain it.

2. It Entails Domains, E-mails, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving countless domain names, online portals, e-mail addresses, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than offering solely remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The mail server(s) must be dedicated only to the mail associated services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific tasks. There might be just one single or perhaps a whole array of mail servers, based on the total server load produced. To have a genuine cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual number. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting plans provider will support numerous server farm facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud hosting vendor:


dns1.vortex-hosting.com

dns2.vortex-hosting.com


If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be confident when you observe a DNS such as the one beneath:


dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com


that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server just demonstrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine copes with all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote file storage service, as multiple hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply provide file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform looks indeed quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one simple component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perhaps a few brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will surface out of nowhere.