How Cloud Hosting Works

What is cloud hosting actually? The term 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's computing, Internet and web hosting parlance. Nonetheless, just a few really can tell what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very long tale brief, we will firstly let you in on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage solution, which involves one file storage appliance for all clients, does not convert any particular web hosting company into an actual cloud hosting distributor.

The cPanel hosting companies call the ability to furnish remote disk storage services a cloud hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about website hosting services, not remote disk storage services for personal or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to call a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not relate solely to the remote data storage. The other services involved in the whole hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's really tough. A very scanty number of hosting corporations can actually accomplish it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Electronic Mail Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote data storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving countless domains, web sites, e-mail box accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than distributing only remote disk storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The e-mail server(s) must be devoted only to the electronic mail related services. Performing nothing different than these specific assignments. There might be only one single or perchance an entire stack of email servers, based on the overall server load generated. To have a genuine cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the users' hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting corporation will support numerous server farm facility locations on different continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting solutions provider:

dns1.www.limeserver.com

dns2.www.limeserver.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be confident when you see a DNS like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server just demonstrates that the web hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, a single physical server copes with all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), website files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not confined simply to a remote disk storage solution, as plenty of hosting corporations wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting distributors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not referred to as such, because they merely furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is really quite plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one tiny fraction of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not acquainted with will surface unexpectedly.