How Does Cloud Website Hosting Work?

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's IT, Internet and hosting terminology. Still, just a select few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite lengthy story concise, we will first let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one single data storage device for all users, does not transform any specific web hosting distributor into an authentic cloud web hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to provide remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, based on a single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not refer solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. A very small number of web hosting firms can really do it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Email Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving lots of domains, web pages, electronic mail addresses, etc., are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than providing just remote data storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted solely to the mail linked services. Doing nothing different than these particular assignments. There might be just one or maybe a whole stack of electronic mail servers, based on the overall server load created. To have an authentic cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting packages provider will support multiple data center locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud web hosting firm:

dns1.www.libertywebhost.net

dns2.www.libertywebhost.net

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server merely shows that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single server copes with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Characterization of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined just to a remote disk storage service, as multiple web hosting corporations wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting providers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they simply supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform looks really very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one small part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe a few new clouds we presently are not aware of will surface out of the blue.