How Cloud Hosting Works

What is cloud website hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting jargon. Nonetheless, just a few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very lengthy story short, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which involves one single data storage device for all clients, does not turn any specific hosting provider into a genuine cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers name the ability to provide remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very meager number of service providers can really achieve it.

2. It Involves Domains, Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving countless domains, web pages, e-mail addresses, and so on, right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering just remote file storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The email server(s) must be devoted only to the mail related services. Executing nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be only one single or probably an entire collection of email servers, determined by the total server load generated. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual number. Executing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting supplier will support numerous data center locations on multiple continents.

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

dns1.services.consultingforge.name

dns2.services.consultingforge.name

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server just illustrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single server handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage service, as numerous web hosting corporations wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting suppliers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, because they plainly supply file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems indeed very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one small segment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably several brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will turn up out of the blue.