How Does Cloud Website Hosting Work?

What is cloud web hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting phraseology. In spite of that, only a select few really are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a fine idea to educate yourself about cloud web hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale brief, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote File Storage Only.

1. Delivering a remote data storage service, which comprises one single data storage appliance for all users, does not convert any particular web hosting supplier into an actual cloud web hosting firm.

The cPanel web hosting vendors call the ability to supply remote disk storage services a cloud web hosting service. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for private or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" solution. That's because the other parts of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in exactly the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very scanty number of hosting vendors can really accomplish it.

2. It Involves Domains, Electronic Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, web portals, e-mails, and so on, right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one needs a lot more than supplying plainly remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The e-mail server(s) must be dedicated only to the mail linked services. Performing nothing else than these specific assignments. There might be just one or probably a whole pack of mail servers, based on the overall server load created. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real quantity. Performing nothing else. The same is valid for the users' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud web hosting packages provider:

dns1.sublimedomains.net

dns2.sublimedomains.net

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your web hosting solutions provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you notice a DNS such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This kind of DNS just manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and has a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical machine copes with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Definition 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 suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file service providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, as they merely deliver file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform is really very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's only one simple constituent of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a few brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will spring up unexpectedly.