How Does Cloud Website Hosting Work?

What is cloud web hosting really? The term 'cloud' appears to be very trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. In spite of that, just a select few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long tale concise, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Solely.

1. Supplying a remote file storage service, which involves one data storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any specific hosting firm into a real cloud web hosting services provider.

The cPanel hosting suppliers name the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for individual or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other pieces of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very small number of web hosting corporations can truly attain it.

2. It Involves Domains, Emails, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving many domains, web sites, mail addresses, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than supplying simply remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the mail connected services. Performing nothing different than these given assignments. There might be only one single or maybe an entire stack of electronic mail servers, determined by the total load created. To have an actual cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Performing nothing different. The same goes for the users' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud web hosting corporation will support multiple data center sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an actual cloud web hosting plans provider:

dns1.kodmikro.com

dns2.kodmikro.com

If such a DNS is furnished by your web hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This sort of DNS simply displays that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Characterization of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined solely to a remote data storage solution, as lots of hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform looks indeed quite 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 only one simple fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance several new clouds we presently are not aware of will spring up out of nowhere.