How Does Cloud Website Hosting Function?

What is cloud web hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting parlance. Nevertheless, just a few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite long story succinct, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Exclusively.

1. Offering a remote file storage solution, which involves one disk storage tool for all users, does not convert any given hosting firm into an authentic cloud web hosting distributor.

The cPanel web hosting firms dub the ability to supply remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote file storage services for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining constituents of the whole hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. Very few hosting corporations can really accomplish it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, E-mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving countless domains, web sites, e-mail aliases, and so on, are we not?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than distributing merely remote data storage mounts (or possibly physical servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the email linked services. Doing nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one or perhaps a whole pack of e-mail servers, determined by the total server load created. To have an authentic cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Performing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting services provider will support numerous datacenter locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an authentic cloud web hosting company:

dns1.zastahosting.com

dns2.zastahosting.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you spot a DNS such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS plainly reveals that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine is responsible for all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined solely to a remote disk storage service, as plenty of service providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they plainly furnish file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small part of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will come up out of nowhere.