How Does Cloud Hosting Work?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting terminology. Yet, only a select few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long story brief, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Only.

1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which involves one single data storage appliance for all clients, does not transform any specific hosting distributor into a real cloud website hosting distributor.

The cPanel web hosting distributors dub the ability to furnish remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, based on a one-single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining parts of the entire hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very small number of hosting vendors can truly do it.

2. It Includes Domains, E-mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domain names, web sites, email mailboxes, etc., are we not?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than delivering plainly remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated just to the mail connected services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be only one or perchance an entire group of email servers, based on the overall load created. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting packages provider will support multiple data center sites on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud website hosting firm:

dns1.webservex.com

dns2.webservex.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you spot a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS simply manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single server handles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Description of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined solely to a remote data storage solution, as many web hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, as they merely supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform seems really quite simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one tiny constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, maybe a few new clouds we presently don't know about will show up out of the blue.