How Cloud Hosting Operates

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting lingo. Nevertheless, just a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale succinct, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Delivering a remote disk storage service, which involves one file storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any specific hosting provider into a genuine cloud website hosting vendor.

The cPanel hosting distributors call the ability to provide remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for personal or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the other constituents of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. Very few hosting distributors can really do it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, web portals, email boxes, and so on, aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing only remote data storage mounts (or perchance servers). The email server(s) must be devoted only to the email linked services. Executing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be only one or perhaps an entire array of e-mail servers, determined by the total load created. To have an authentic cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting supplier will support numerous datacenter facility sites on multiple continents.

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

dns1.comnetcloudsolutions.com

dns2.comnetcloudsolutions.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you perceive a DNS like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server merely illustrates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server deals with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited simply to a remote file storage service, as a lot of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, because they merely supply file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is indeed very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one small fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, maybe several new clouds we currently don't know about will appear out of nowhere.