How Cloud Website Hosting Operates

What is cloud web hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. However, only a few really are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a very long story concise, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which involves one file storage tool for all users, does not transform any particular hosting company into a genuine cloud web hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel web hosting vendors dub the ability to offer remote data storage services a cloud web hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for individual or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared hosting service, based on a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the remaining fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very meager number of web hosting suppliers can truly make it.

2. It Involves Domains, Mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud web hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domains, web portals, mail aliases, etc., right?

To name a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one takes a lot more than furnishing solely remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated solely to the mail related services. Carrying out nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be only one or perchance a whole array of e-mail servers, determined by the overall load generated. To have a true cloud web hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the customers' CPs, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud web hosting vendor will support numerous datacenter sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud web hosting packages provider:

dns1.lcsitmediahosting.com

dns2.lcsitmediahosting.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you notice a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server just demonstrates that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one single physical server copes with all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), website files, etc.).

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

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not limited exclusively to a remote file storage service, as plenty of web hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting providers would have been referred to as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they merely provide file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems really very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one simple fragment of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a bunch of new clouds we presently are not aware of will come up out of nowhere.