How Does Cloud Web Hosting Work?

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting lingo. Still, just a few really know what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very long story succinct, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Solely.

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single file storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any specific web hosting corporation into a real cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel hosting vendors dub the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote file storage services for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the other pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. Very few web hosting distributors can truly achieve it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Emails, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving multiple domains, web sites, emails, and so on, aren't we?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than furnishing only remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the email associated services. Executing nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or possibly an entire collection of e-mail servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have an authentic cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the users' hosting 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 website hosting supplier will support multiple data center locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud website hosting vendor:

dns1.intellifi-hosting.com

dns2.intellifi-hosting.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting distributor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you spot a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS plainly reveals that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine takes care of all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted simply to a remote file storage solution, as multiple web hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting firms would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, as they simply offer file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears really very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one simple part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance a couple of brand new clouds we currently don't know about will come up out of the blue.