How Does Cloud Website Hosting Work?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's computing, Internet and hosting parlance. Nevertheless, only a few really can say what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long tale succinct, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Exclusively.

1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which involves one single disk storage tool for all users, does not transform any specific web hosting company into a real cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel hosting vendors call the ability to deliver remote disk storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for personal 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 one-single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. This is so because the other fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very meager number of web hosting suppliers can truly make it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Email Boxes, Databases, FTPs, CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving numerous domains, web pages, electronic mail aliases, etc., aren't we?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than furnishing merely remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The mail server(s) must be devoted just to the email related services. Performing nothing different than these given procedures. There might be just one single or perhaps an entire collection of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall server load generated. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting services provider will support numerous server farm sites on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of a real cloud website hosting firm:

dns1.srbijasoft.net

dns2.srbijasoft.net

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you spot a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS merely shows that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one single physical machine is responsible for all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud website hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as plenty of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting corporations would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, because they simply supply file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems really very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one simple constituent of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel 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 few brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will emerge out of nowhere.