How Cloud Hosting Works

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting jargon. Still, only a select few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very lengthy story succinct, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Disk Storage Exclusively.

1. Delivering a remote data storage solution, which involves one single file storage device for all users, does not turn any particular hosting firm into an authentic cloud web hosting vendor.

The cPanel hosting firms name the ability to supply remote data storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote disk storage services for private or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, based on a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the other parts of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. Very few web hosting providers can truly make it.

2. It Includes Domains, Email Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving multiple domains, web sites, mail aliases, and so on, are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than offering plainly remote file storage mounts (or possibly servers). The email server(s) have to be devoted exclusively to the email related services. Performing nothing else than these particular tasks. There might be just one single or perchance an entire collection of email servers, depending on the total load created. To have a genuine cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual number. Performing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud web hosting accounts provider will support multiple server farm locations on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of an actual cloud web hosting packages provider:

dns1.flexhosted.net

dns2.flexhosted.net

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you discern a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of DNS merely exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical server handles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Explanation of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting service is not limited simply to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of hosting service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they merely supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks indeed very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small fragment of the entire 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 email cloud and... in the near future, perchance a number of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will turn up out of the blue.