How Does Cloud Web Hosting Function?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting lingo. Nonetheless, only a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story succinct, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage service, which comprises one data storage tool for all clients, does not turn any particular hosting supplier into an actual cloud website hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel web hosting firms name the ability to furnish remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote disk storage services for personal or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting service, powered by a one-single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the other parts of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. Very few web hosting vendors can really achieve it.

2. It Involves Domains, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote data storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving many domain names, websites, electronic mails, etc., right?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than furnishing solely remote file storage mounts (or possibly servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated only to the mail linked services. Executing nothing else than these concrete tasks. There might be only one single or possibly a whole array of e-mail servers, based on the total load produced. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real number. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting services provider will support numerous datacenter sites on different continents.

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

dns1.successhosting.net

dns2.successhosting.net

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you see a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of DNS just shows that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical server copes with all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined only to a remote disk storage solution, as plenty of hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting companies would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, because they simply deliver file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. 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 just one tiny component of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will emerge out of the blue.