How Does Cloud Hosting Work?

What is cloud website hosting actually? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and web hosting jargon. However, just a select few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To make a very long tale brief, we will first notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote File Storage Solely.

1. Providing a remote data storage service, which comprises one file storage tool for all customers, does not transform any particular hosting corporation into a genuine cloud website hosting company.

The cPanel web hosting vendors name the ability to supply remote file storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for personal or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared web hosting service, based on a one-single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" service. That's because the other components of the whole hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very small number of web hosting companies can truly achieve it.

2. It Entails Domains, Electronic Mail Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving plenty of domain names, web sites, mailbox accounts, etc., are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying simply remote disk storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated only to the email related services. Doing nothing else than these concrete tasks. There might be just one single or perchance an entire bunch of email servers, based on the total server load created. To have a genuine cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, regardless of their actual quantity. Executing nothing else. The same is valid for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an authentic cloud website hosting provider will support numerous data center facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a true cloud website hosting distributor:

dns1.www.agrawebhosting.com

dns2.www.agrawebhosting.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of DNS plainly illustrates that the hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and has a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single server is responsible for all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Interpretation of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting service is not limited just to a remote data storage solution, as numerous hosting firms wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting companies would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones long ago! They are not classified as such, because they simply supply file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform seems indeed very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will appear out of the blue.