How Cloud Hosting Operates

What is cloud website hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting jargon. Still, only a few really know what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very long story succinct, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote file storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage tool for all users, does not convert any particular service provider into a real cloud website hosting supplier.

The cPanel hosting distributors call the ability to offer remote data storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting service, based on a single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining parts of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very meager number of web hosting suppliers can actually attain it.

2. It Entails Domains, E-mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving multiple domains, web portals, mailbox aliases, and so on, aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than supplying simply remote disk storage mounts (or probably servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated only to the electronic mail associated services. Executing nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be only one single or perchance a whole bundle of electronic mail servers, determined by the total load produced. To have a true cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real number. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the customers' Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting provider will support multiple datacenter sites on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud website hosting supplier:

dns1.aplusweb.net

dns2.aplusweb.net

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server only indicates that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server takes care of all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined only to a remote file storage service, as multiple hosting distributors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they plainly provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform looks really quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one tiny fragment of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will emerge unexpectedly.