How Does Cloud Web Hosting Operate?

What is cloud hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's information technology, Internet and hosting parlance. Nevertheless, only a select few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very lengthy story succinct, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote disk storage solution, which involves one single disk storage tool for all users, does not convert any particular web hosting vendor into an actual cloud hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting providers dub the ability to furnish remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for private or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the remaining pieces of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. A very meager number of hosting suppliers can really do it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mail Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving plenty of domains, websites, mail accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than offering simply remote disk storage mounts (or possibly servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated exclusively to the e-mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or perhaps an entire set of mail servers, based on the overall load created. To have a genuine cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual number. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud hosting services provider will support multiple server farm facility sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud hosting provider:

dns1.widemarsh.com

dns2.widemarsh.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of DNS simply reveals that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single server takes care of all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined exclusively to a remote data storage solution, as a lot of hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting vendors would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they simply supply file hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform is really quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance a number of new clouds we currently don't know about will surface unexpectedly.