How Does Cloud Website Hosting Work?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's computing, Internet and web hosting terms. Nevertheless, only a select few in fact know what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a quite long story short, we will first tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote file storage solution, which involves one single data storage tool for all customers, does not turn any specific hosting corporation into a real cloud website hosting corporation.

The cPanel hosting corporations call the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote disk storage services for private or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, based on a one-single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other parts of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very meager number of web hosting suppliers can actually attain it.

2. It Involves Domains, Mail Aliases, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving multiple domain names, web pages, electronic mails, etc., are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than distributing merely remote disk storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The email server(s) have to be devoted just to the electronic mail linked services. Doing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be only one or perchance an entire bundle of mail servers, determined by the total load created. To have a genuine cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud website hosting company will support multiple data center locations on multiple continents.

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

dns1.officialdomainnamestore.com

dns2.officialdomainnamestore.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting plans 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 see a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server plainly indicates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical server takes care of all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited only to a remote file storage solution, as lots of web hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they simply supply file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is indeed very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one small component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will appear unexpectedly.