How Does Cloud Web Hosting Work?

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting parlance. Nevertheless, just a select few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very lengthy story brief, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Furnishing a remote file storage service, which comprises one disk storage appliance for all clients, does not transform any given hosting distributor into an actual cloud web hosting distributor.

The cPanel web hosting distributors name the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for individual or business purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, powered by a one-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other constituents of the whole hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very meager number of web hosting distributors can really do it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Email Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting service, serving numerous domains, online portals, emails, etc., right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than distributing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or probably servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the mail associated services. Executing nothing different than these particular assignments. There might be only one or possibly a whole set of mail servers, depending on the overall load created. To have a real cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Executing nothing different. The same goes for the clients' CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud web hosting corporation:

dns1.yashost.com

dns2.yashost.com

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your web hosting services provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you observe a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS simply shows that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not limited simply to a remote disk storage solution, as plenty of hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting firms would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, since they merely furnish file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks really very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one simple part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably several new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will come up out of nowhere.