How Does Cloud Hosting Operate?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting parlance. Nevertheless, just a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very long story short, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one disk storage appliance for all clients, does not turn any given web hosting vendor into a real cloud website hosting corporation.

The cPanel hosting vendors name the ability to supply remote data storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for individual or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, driven by a single-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other constituents of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very scanty number of service providers can really accomplish it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Email Mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting service, serving lots of domain names, web sites, mailboxes, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than providing solely remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted just to the mail connected services. Carrying out nothing else than these particular tasks. There might be just one or maybe an entire pack of electronic mail servers, based on the total server load produced. To have a true cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their real number. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting vendor will support numerous datacenter sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting solutions provider:

dns1.realbizhost.com

dns2.realbizhost.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting supplier, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you spot a Domain Name Server such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of Domain Name Server merely manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server tackles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Definition of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted just to a remote file storage service, as many web hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting suppliers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they plainly deliver file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one small part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, possibly several brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will emerge out of the blue.