How Cloud Web Hosting Functions

What is cloud website hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's computing, Internet and web hosting terms. However, only a select few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long tale short, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Only.

1. Furnishing a remote file storage service, which involves one single data storage tool for all users, does not transform any specific hosting distributor into an authentic cloud website hosting supplier.

The cPanel hosting suppliers name the ability to supply remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the remaining parts of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very meager number of web hosting suppliers can actually make it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving many domain names, web pages, mails, etc., right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying plainly remote file storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated only to the electronic mail linked services. Doing nothing different than these given procedures. There might be only one single or probably an entire stack of e-mail servers, determined by the overall server load produced. To have a true cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Performing nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' web hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting accounts provider will support numerous server farm facility locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting accounts provider:

dns1.newbrandhosting.com

dns2.newbrandhosting.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting plans provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be sure when you see a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of DNS plainly exhibits that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical server copes with all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined just to a remote file storage solution, as many hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting vendors would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, as they merely offer file web hosting services, not cloud hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems indeed quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one simple constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a couple of new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will appear out of the blue.