How Cloud Web Hosting Operates
What is cloud website hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's computing, Internet and hosting lingo. Still, just a few actually know what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very long story brief, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.
1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Data Storage Solely.
1. Furnishing a remote data storage solution, which involves one disk storage appliance for all customers, does not transform any specific web hosting service provider into an authentic cloud website hosting packages provider.
The cPanel web hosting distributors call the ability to provide remote data storage solutions a cloud website hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud designation, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for individual or business needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the other components of the whole hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The remaining services entailed in the entire hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very hard. A very small number of web hosting distributors can truly attain it.
2. It Includes Domain Names, E-mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, and so on.
Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, sites, electronic mail addresses, and so on, are we not?
To dub a hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one requires a lot more than furnishing merely remote file storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated only to the mail associated services. Doing nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be just one or possibly a whole assortment of email servers, determined by the total load produced. To have an actual cloud website hosting service, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real amount. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the users' web hosting Control Panels, 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 distributor will support multiple server farm locations on multiple continents.
Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a real cloud website hosting accounts provider:
dns1.redesk.us
dns2.redesk.us
If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you discern a DNS like the one beneath:
dns658.hostgator.com
dns659.hostgator.com
that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server only demonstrates that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server handles all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).
Remote File Storage - The Perverted Description of Cloud Website Hosting.
So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited just to a remote file storage service, as plenty of hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting firms would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, as they merely distribute file web hosting services, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one small fraction of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly a couple of new clouds we currently are not informed about will come up out of the blue.