How Does Cloud Web Hosting Operate?

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terms. In spite of that, just a select few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long tale concise, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which involves one data storage tool for all customers, does not turn any given web hosting firm into an actual cloud web hosting firm.

The cPanel hosting suppliers dub the ability to furnish remote disk storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for personal or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, powered by a one-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining constituents of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very meager number of hosting distributors can really do it.

2. It Entails Domains, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote data storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving lots of domains, online portals, mail accounts, etc., right?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than furnishing simply remote data storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted just to the mail linked services. Executing nothing different than these given tasks. There might be only one or possibly a whole collection of email servers, determined by the overall server load generated. To have a true cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real amount. Doing nothing different. The same goes for the users' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud web hosting plans provider will support numerous datacenter facility sites on multiple continents.

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

dns1.billing.hostprod.com

dns2.billing.hostprod.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your web hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you spot a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server plainly exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server is responsible for all hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as a lot of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting companies would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they simply provide file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears really quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perchance a bunch of new clouds we currently are not familiar with will emerge unexpectedly.