How Cloud Hosting Works

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting jargon. Nonetheless, only a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale concise, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Only.

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

The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to provide remote file storage services a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining fractions of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very small number of web hosting firms can really attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Electronic Mail Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, web pages, email boxes, and so on, right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than delivering solely remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the email linked services. Executing nothing else than these given assignments. There might be just one single or maybe a whole cluster of email servers, determined by the overall server load produced. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the users' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting provider will support multiple datacenter locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud website hosting plans provider:

dns1.suncloud-hosting.com

dns2.suncloud-hosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting services provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you notice a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server simply reveals that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine handles all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote file storage solution, as a lot of web hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting vendors would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, because they simply furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is 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 merely one tiny fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance a bunch of new clouds we presently don't know about will appear unexpectedly.