How Cloud Website Hosting Works

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite modish in today's information technology, Internet and web hosting terms. Nevertheless, just a select few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very long story succinct, we will firstly acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote file storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage device for all customers, does not transform any particular hosting vendor into a genuine cloud website hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting corporations call the ability to distribute remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote file storage services for private or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining parts of the entire hosting platform must be working in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the whole web hosting process also need to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. A very meager number of hosting service providers can really do it.

2. It Involves Domain Names, Email Mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage only. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving plenty of domain names, online portals, e-mail addresses, etc., are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one needs a lot more than offering solely remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The mail server(s) have to be devoted only to the e-mail related services. Carrying out nothing else than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or probably an entire cluster of electronic mail servers, based on the overall server load produced. To have a true cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Doing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud website hosting firm will support multiple data center locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud website hosting vendor:

dns1.whiteriverdomains.com

dns2.whiteriverdomains.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting supplier, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you see 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 plainly indicates that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting platform and has a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical server handles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote disk storage service, as numerous hosting companies wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, because 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 disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one small fragment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a bunch of new clouds we currently don't know about will emerge out of nowhere.