How Cloud Website Hosting Operates

What is cloud website hosting indeed? The term 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's IT, World Wide Web and hosting phraseology. Nonetheless, just a few actually are informed about what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale succinct, we will first disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Website Hosting is Not Restricted to a Remote Data Storage Only.

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single disk storage tool for all clients, does not transform any given web hosting service provider into an actual cloud website hosting plans provider.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers call the ability to distribute remote file storage services a cloud website hosting service. Up to now there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are talking about web hosting services, not remote disk storage services for private or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. That's because the other constituents of the whole web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely hard. Very few hosting vendors can actually do it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Mailbox Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving numerous domains, web pages, electronic mail addresses, etc., are we not?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering simply remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) have to be dedicated exclusively to the electronic mail related services. Carrying out nothing else than these specific procedures. There might be just one or perchance a whole assortment of email servers, determined by 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. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' CPs, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud website hosting distributor will support multiple server farm locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of an authentic cloud website hosting provider:

dns1.itsupport.cmscti.com

dns2.itsupport.cmscti.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of DNS merely displays that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one physical machine copes with all web hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Definition of Cloud Website Hosting.

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited solely to a remote data storage solution, as lots of hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting distributors would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, as they simply supply file hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform looks indeed quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one simple part of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a number of new clouds we presently don't know about will emerge out of nowhere.