How Does Cloud Hosting Operate?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. Still, just a select few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy story short, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which involves one file storage device for all users, does not convert any specific service provider into an actual cloud website hosting corporation.

The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to furnish remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, based on a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. A very small number of web hosting firms can truly attain it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Boxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving many domains, websites, mailbox aliases, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than delivering simply remote disk storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The email server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the e-mail associated services. Executing nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be only one or perhaps an entire set of mail servers, determined by the overall load generated. To have a genuine cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the customers' web hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud website hosting solutions provider will support multiple data center locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting company:

dns1.cheapdomains.ltd

dns2.cheapdomains.ltd

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be sure when you observe a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS only indicates that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single server handles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Interpretation of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited simply to a remote file storage solution, as many web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, as they simply distribute file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one simple fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe a couple of new clouds we currently are not aware of will emerge out of the blue.