How Does Cloud Website Hosting Work?

What is cloud web hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. Nonetheless, only a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale brief, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which involves one single data storage tool for all users, does not convert any specific hosting vendor into an authentic cloud web hosting company.

The cPanel web hosting firms dub the ability to offer remote data storage services a cloud web hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage services for private or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared web hosting service, based on a single-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the remaining parts of the whole web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same way - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very scanty number of hosting distributors can truly make it.

2. It Entails Domains, Email Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving multiple domains, web sites, mail addresses, and so on, are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than delivering simply remote disk storage mounts (or probably servers). The electronic mail server(s) must be devoted just to the electronic mail associated services. Doing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be only one or perchance an entire set of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall load generated. To have a genuine cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real number. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' hosting CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

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

Here's an instance of a DNS of an authentic cloud web hosting corporation:

dns1.sedasofthosting.com

dns2.sedasofthosting.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting packages provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you spot a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This type of DNS only exhibits that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one server copes with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, FTP, CP(s), web files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Characterization of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting service is not confined exclusively to a remote data storage service, as many web hosting vendors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting companies would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, since they simply furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one simple component of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, perchance a bunch of new clouds we currently are not acquainted with will turn up out of the blue.