How Does Cloud Web Hosting Function?

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's IT, Internet and web hosting terms. Even so, only a few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long tale short, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Only.

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which involves one disk storage appliance for all customers, does not convert any given web hosting service provider into a real cloud web hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting firms call the ability to deliver remote file storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote file storage services for individual or business purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared web hosting service, driven by a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. This is so because the other constituents of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same way - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services involved in the whole hosting process also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very meager number of web hosting service providers can really attain it.

2. It Involves Domains, Electronic Mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting service, serving lots of domain names, sites, mails, and so on, right?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing solely remote data storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted just to the mail associated services. Executing nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be just one single or possibly a whole array of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall server load produced. To have an authentic cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Doing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud web hosting packages provider will support numerous server farm facility locations on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting provider:

dns1.dubhost.us

dns2.dubhost.us

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server merely shows that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine takes care of all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not confined exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as multiple hosting distributors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, since they plainly supply file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one tiny constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perhaps a couple of new clouds we currently don't know about will spring up unexpectedly.