How Cloud Website Hosting Works

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terminology. Yet, only a select few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story short, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which comprises one data storage tool for all customers, does not convert any specific web hosting provider into a genuine cloud web hosting firm.

The cPanel hosting companies name the ability to distribute remote file storage services a cloud web hosting service. Until now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for private or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-single-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining components of the whole hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. Very few hosting suppliers can truly do it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, E-mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, web pages, email mailbox accounts, and so on, right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than providing only remote disk storage mounts (or perchance servers). The mail server(s) have to be dedicated only to the e-mail connected services. Doing nothing else than these specific tasks. There might be just one or possibly an entire set of electronic mail servers, depending on the total load produced. To have a true cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual number. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) too.

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

Here's an instance of a DNS of a true cloud web hosting accounts provider:

dns1.mindfox.info

dns2.mindfox.info

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server only illustrates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine copes with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined solely to a remote file storage service, as multiple hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting companies would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly provide file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform looks indeed quite plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one small segment of the whole 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 Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, probably several brand new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will come up out of nowhere.