How Cloud Website 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 hosting jargon. Nevertheless, just a select few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale short, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Only.

1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which involves one data storage device for all clients, does not transform any particular hosting corporation into an actual cloud website hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting suppliers dub the ability to distribute remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, powered by a single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the remaining constituents of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very meager number of hosting service providers can actually attain it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Mail Addresses, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving numerous domains, online portals, mailbox aliases, and so on, are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than furnishing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or perchance servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated solely to the mail related services. Doing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be just one single or maybe a whole array of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall server load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the customers' 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 website hosting corporation will support numerous data center locations on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud website hosting vendor:

dns1.buyselldomain.name

dns2.buyselldomain.name

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your web hosting distributor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you discern a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of DNS just exhibits that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single physical server takes care of all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote disk storage solution, as plenty of hosting distributors wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting suppliers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they simply deliver file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks indeed very plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one simple component of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps a few brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will turn up out of the blue.