How Does Cloud Web Hosting Work?

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's information technology, Internet and hosting parlance. In spite of that, just a select few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long story succinct, we will firstly enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Solely.

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which involves one data storage appliance for all users, does not turn any given web hosting firm into a real cloud web hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting corporations name the ability to distribute remote file storage solutions a cloud web hosting service. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, powered by a single-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining parts of the entire hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very meager number of service providers can truly achieve it.

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

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving plenty of domains, web sites, mail aliases, and so on, are we not?

To name a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering simply remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted solely to the mail associated services. Performing nothing else than these given assignments. There might be only one or perhaps an entire stack of mail servers, based on the total load created. To have a genuine cloud web 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' web hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud web hosting vendor will support multiple datacenter facility locations on multiple continents.

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

dns1.realbizservers.com

dns2.realbizservers.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting company, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS simply displays that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server copes with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not restricted just to a remote file storage solution, as numerous web hosting providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting providers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, because they simply distribute file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is indeed very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one simple component of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps several new clouds we currently are not aware of will show up unexpectedly.