How Cloud Website Hosting Functions

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting terminology. Yet, just a select few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite long story succinct, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage service, which comprises one data storage tool for all users, does not convert any particular service provider into an authentic cloud hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting providers name the ability to supply remote data storage services a cloud hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, powered by a one-single-server web hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the other components of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really difficult. A very meager number of hosting service providers can really attain it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, E-mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving many domains, web pages, e-mail accounts, and so on, right?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering plainly remote file storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The mail server(s) need to be dedicated just to the electronic mail linked services. Performing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be just one single or perchance a whole collection of e-mail servers, depending on the overall server load produced. To have an authentic cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud hosting accounts provider will support numerous server farm facility sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud hosting provider:

dns1.allmyhosting.com

dns2.allmyhosting.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server simply reveals that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical server takes care of all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not limited solely to a remote data storage service, as many hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting corporations would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, since they simply deliver file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform looks indeed very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one small fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, maybe several new clouds we presently are not aware of will come up out of the blue.