How Cloud Website Hosting Works

What is cloud web hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting lingo. In spite of that, only a select few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story short, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Solely.

1. Offering a remote data storage service, which involves one single file storage tool for all customers, does not transform any specific web hosting provider into an actual cloud web hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers dub the ability to distribute remote file storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing hosting services, not remote file storage services for individual or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. That's because the other constituents of the whole hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the whole hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. A very scanty number of web hosting firms can actually make it.

2. It Involves Domains, Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, web portals, email aliases, and so on, right?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one requires a lot more than offering simply remote disk storage mounts (or maybe servers). The mail server(s) have to be dedicated just to the electronic mail connected services. Executing nothing different than these given procedures. There might be just one or probably an entire bundle of e-mail servers, based on the total load generated. To have an authentic cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting plans provider will support numerous data center facility sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud web hosting packages provider:

dns1.nelsonshosting.com

dns2.nelsonshosting.com

If such a DNS is furnished by your hosting provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you perceive a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of DNS simply shows that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server handles all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Explanation of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined only to a remote disk storage service, as a lot of web hosting companies wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply provide file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems really very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one simple segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly several new clouds we currently are not familiar with will come up out of the blue.