How Does Cloud Website Hosting Work?

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' appears to be very fashionable in today's computing, Internet and hosting jargon. However, only a few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long story concise, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Providing a remote data storage service, which comprises one file storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any specific hosting supplier into an actual cloud website hosting company.

The cPanel hosting vendors name the ability to distribute remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for private or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, driven by a single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very scanty number of hosting vendors can really make it.

2. It Entails Domains, Email Box Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving many domains, websites, email addresses, etc., right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than furnishing simply remote file storage mounts (or perchance servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be dedicated just to the mail connected services. Performing nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be only one or perchance a whole bundle of mail servers, based on the overall load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, regardless of their real amount. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' hosting CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud website hosting distributor will support numerous server farm sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud website hosting services provider:

dns1.www.zhaku.com

dns2.www.zhaku.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of DNS simply displays that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single server is responsible for all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as many web hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they plainly deliver file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is really quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one tiny segment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, probably several new clouds we currently are not familiar with will turn up out of nowhere.