How Does Cloud Web Hosting Operate?

What is cloud website hosting really? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's computing, Internet and hosting terms. Yet, just a select few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very long tale short, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote data storage service, which comprises one file storage appliance for all users, does not turn any particular hosting service provider into a real cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to furnish remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote file storage services for personal or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other parts of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very meager number of web hosting providers can really accomplish it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving multiple domains, online portals, mail addresses, etc., aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than providing solely remote disk storage mounts (or maybe servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted exclusively to the mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be only one or perhaps an entire cluster of electronic mail servers, determined by the total load created. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the users' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a genuine cloud website hosting distributor:

dns1.ihosting.codeskripts.com

dns2.ihosting.codeskripts.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server just shows that the hosting platform 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 percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server tackles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined solely to a remote disk storage solution, as plenty of web hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file service providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they simply offer file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform appears really quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one tiny segment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, probably a number of brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will come up unexpectedly.