How Does Cloud Web Hosting Operate?

What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's IT, Internet and hosting terms. Nevertheless, only a select few really can say what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long story brief, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.

1. Offering a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one file storage appliance for all users, does not transform any particular hosting provider into a real cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to furnish remote file storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for private or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting solution, based on a single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining parts of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very small number of hosting vendors can really do it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Electronic Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving multiple domain names, web portals, email aliases, and so on, are we not?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than delivering plainly remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated solely to the electronic mail linked services. Doing nothing different than these given procedures. There might be only one single or maybe an entire stack of mail servers, depending on the overall load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the users' 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 distributor will support multiple server farm sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a real cloud website hosting corporation:

dns1.unlimitedcpanelwebhost.com

dns2.unlimitedcpanelwebhost.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of DNS just illustrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single server tackles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Interpretation of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined exclusively to a remote disk storage solution, as lots of web hosting companies wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting firms would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly furnish file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform looks indeed quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one simple part of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably a few new clouds we presently are not familiar with will come up unexpectedly.