How Does Cloud Web Hosting Work?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite modish in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting jargon. Still, only a select few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very long tale succinct, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one disk storage tool for all clients, does not turn any specific hosting supplier into an authentic cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel hosting providers dub the ability to deliver remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for private or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, driven by a one-single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining parts of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very small number of web hosting suppliers can truly accomplish it.

2. It Includes Domains, E-mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving lots of domains, web pages, electronic mail aliases, etc., right?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than furnishing solely remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The email server(s) have to be dedicated solely to the e-mail related services. Performing nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be just one single or maybe a whole assortment of electronic mail servers, based on the overall server load created. To have a real cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual amount. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting services provider will support multiple data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud website hosting provider:

dns1.hostworldservices.us

dns2.hostworldservices.us

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting supplier, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you observe a DNS such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of DNS merely shows that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited solely to a remote disk storage service, as numerous hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting companies would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly offer file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really very simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one simple fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a couple of new clouds we presently are not familiar with will emerge out of nowhere.