How Cloud Website Hosting Functions

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's computing, Internet and web hosting jargon. Even so, only a few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a sensible idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale brief, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote data storage solution, which involves one single disk storage device for all clients, does not turn any specific hosting corporation into an authentic cloud web hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting distributors call the ability to distribute remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for private or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the remaining parts of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very small number of service providers can truly achieve it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domains, web pages, mails, etc., right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than offering only remote data storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be devoted only to the mail associated services. Carrying out nothing different than these given assignments. There might be just one or probably an entire collection of electronic mail servers, based on the total load generated. To have an actual cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real number. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting accounts provider will support multiple server farm facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an actual cloud web hosting vendor:

dns1.thewholeinternet.net

dns2.thewholeinternet.net

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you see a DNS like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This kind of Domain Name Server simply shows that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine tackles all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Definition of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined simply to a remote file storage service, as many hosting service providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting suppliers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, because they merely deliver file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears really very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one simple segment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, probably several new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will come up out of the blue.