How Does Cloud Web Hosting Operate?

What is cloud hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's information technology, Internet and hosting jargon. Yet, just a few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite long story brief, we will first describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote file storage solution, which involves one single disk storage device for all clients, does not convert any specific hosting firm into an authentic cloud hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting corporations dub the ability to provide remote disk storage services a cloud hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the remaining components of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very meager number of web hosting corporations can actually make it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving countless domains, online portals, electronic mail addresses, and so on, are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than furnishing simply remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The email server(s) need to be dedicated only to the e-mail connected services. Carrying out nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be just one or perhaps an entire collection of e-mail servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have an authentic cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual number. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting supplier will support multiple data center facility sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud hosting distributor:

dns1.www.magnoliasweets.us

dns2.www.magnoliasweets.us

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting solutions provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you discern a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of DNS simply displays that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical server deals with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted just to a remote data storage service, as lots of service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, as they merely distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform is indeed quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one small part of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a few new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will surface unexpectedly.