How Does Cloud Website Hosting Operate?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. Yet, just a few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a fine idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Only.

1. Providing a remote data storage solution, which involves one single file storage appliance for all customers, does not convert any particular hosting vendor into a genuine cloud website hosting packages provider.

The cPanel hosting distributors call the ability to distribute remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting service, based on a one-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the remaining pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same manner - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very meager number of hosting service providers can truly achieve it.

2. It Entails Domains, Mailbox Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not confined to a remote data storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving a lot of domain names, web portals, mail addresses, etc., right?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than distributing plainly remote disk storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The email server(s) must be devoted exclusively to the email linked services. Executing nothing different than these concrete procedures. There might be only one or probably an entire pack of electronic mail servers, determined by the overall load produced. To have a genuine cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their real amount. Executing nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' 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 corporation will support multiple data center facility sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud website hosting services provider:

dns1.meekyboost.com

dns2.meekyboost.com

If such a Domain Name Server is supplied by your hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you spot a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This kind of Domain Name Server merely demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server takes care of all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not confined just to a remote file storage solution, as numerous web hosting distributors wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting suppliers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not referred to as such, because they plainly provide file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small fraction of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found 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 foreseeable future, maybe a bunch of brand new clouds we presently don't know about will emerge unexpectedly.