How Does Cloud Website Hosting Operate?

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be very trendy in today's computing, Internet and web hosting terminology. Still, just a select few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very long story succinct, we will firstly reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one disk storage appliance for all users, does not turn any particular web hosting vendor into an actual cloud hosting distributor.

The cPanel web hosting corporations call the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. This is so because the remaining pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite difficult. A very meager number of hosting providers can really make it.

2. It Entails Domains, Mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving lots of domains, sites, email accounts, etc., are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than providing plainly remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated exclusively to the email associated services. Executing nothing different than these particular assignments. There might be only one single or maybe a whole stack of email servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have a true cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting vendor will support numerous datacenter locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of a genuine cloud hosting solutions provider:

dns1.www.triqul.net

dns2.www.triqul.net

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server merely displays that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine takes care of all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as multiple web hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file service providers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, because they simply furnish file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks indeed very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one simple fragment of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, maybe a number of new clouds we currently are not familiar with will appear out of the blue.