How Does Cloud Web Hosting Work?

What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's computing, Internet and hosting terminology. Yet, just a few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long story concise, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote data storage service, which involves one disk storage device for all users, does not transform any given hosting supplier into a real cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to distribute remote file storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting service, based on a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining parts of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very scanty number of service providers can truly attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving multiple domains, web pages, email mailbox accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than distributing solely remote data storage mounts (or perchance servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated exclusively to the e-mail related services. Executing nothing else than these given tasks. There might be just one single or probably an entire set of electronic mail servers, based on the overall server load produced. To have a real cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real number. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting accounts provider will support multiple data center sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a true cloud website hosting provider:

dns1.8plus1.org

dns2.8plus1.org

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you perceive a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server only demonstrates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical server handles all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted only to a remote disk storage service, as numerous web hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting service providers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they merely distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears indeed very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one simple fraction of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance a number of brand new clouds we currently are not familiar with will surface out of the blue.