How Cloud Web Hosting Operates

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's IT, Internet and hosting phraseology. Nevertheless, just a few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite long tale succinct, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote file storage service, which comprises one disk storage appliance for all clients, does not transform any particular provider into a genuine cloud web hosting firm.

The cPanel hosting corporations name the ability to distribute remote file storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud designation, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting solution, based on a one-single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining fractions of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very small number of web hosting distributors can actually achieve it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving lots of domains, websites, email mailboxes, and so on, aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying only remote file storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The email server(s) have to be devoted just to the email related services. Carrying out nothing different than these specific procedures. There might be just one or perhaps an entire set of electronic mail servers, based on the total load produced. To have an authentic cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real amount. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting provider will support multiple server farm sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an actual cloud web hosting distributor:

dns1.hosting.clickffi.com

dns2.hosting.clickffi.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting company, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you perceive a Domain Name Server like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of DNS simply shows that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting platform and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one server is responsible for all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Definition of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting service is not limited exclusively to a remote data storage service, as lots of web hosting corporations wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, since they merely supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform is really quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one small fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, perchance several new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will surface unexpectedly.