How Cloud Web Hosting Operates
What is cloud website hosting in fact? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's IT, Internet and web hosting phraseology. In spite of that, just a few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long story short, we will first inform you about what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Only.
1. Furnishing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one file storage appliance for all users, does not turn any particular hosting service provider into a genuine cloud website hosting packages provider.
The cPanel hosting corporations dub the ability to supply remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting service, based on a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining components of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. Very few hosting suppliers can actually achieve it.
2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.
Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving numerous domain names, online portals, electronic mail aliases, and so on, right?
To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one takes a lot more than distributing plainly remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) must be dedicated solely to the electronic mail connected services. Executing nothing different than these concrete tasks. There might be just one single or perhaps a whole set of e-mail servers, based on the total server load produced. To have a real cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their actual amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' web hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.
3. There are Cloud Domain Servers (DNSs) as well.
The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting company will support multiple server farm facility sites on multiple continents.
Here's an illustration of a DNS of a true cloud website hosting supplier:
dns1.worldhostingnet.com
dns2.worldhostingnet.com
If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your web hosting services provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you spot a DNS such as the one below:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of DNS merely manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical machine handles all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Distorted Description of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting service is not confined just to a remote data storage solution, as plenty of hosting suppliers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they plainly supply file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems indeed very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the foreseeable future, perchance a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will emerge unexpectedly.