How Cloud Website Hosting Operates

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting jargon. Nonetheless, only a few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long tale succinct, we will first notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Exclusively.

1. Providing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single file storage appliance for all users, does not turn any particular provider into a real cloud web hosting vendor.

The cPanel hosting vendors name the ability to provide remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website 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 call a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely problematical. A very small number of web hosting corporations can actually make it.

2. It Entails Domains, Mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving numerous domain names, online portals, electronic mail aliases, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than providing just remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The e-mail server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the email connected services. Doing nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be just one single or maybe a whole collection of email servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the users' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud web hosting solutions provider will support multiple server farm facility sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of an authentic cloud web hosting vendor:

dns1.odo.global

dns2.odo.global

If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you observe a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of DNS merely displays that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical server tackles all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, CP(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined exclusively to a remote disk storage solution, as lots of web hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting companies would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they merely distribute file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will spring up unexpectedly.