How Does Cloud Hosting Operate?

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting lingo. Nevertheless, only a select few actually know what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite long story succinct, we will firstly disclose to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which involves one disk storage appliance for all users, does not convert any particular web hosting service provider into a real cloud hosting packages provider.

The cPanel hosting vendors name the ability to provide remote disk storage services a cloud hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote data storage services for private or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting solution, driven by a single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the other parts of the entire web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the whole web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very small number of hosting suppliers can actually make it.

2. It Includes Domains, E-mail Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting service, serving plenty of domains, websites, email addresses, etc., are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one needs a lot more than delivering just remote data storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The electronic mail server(s) need to be dedicated just to the electronic mail associated services. Doing nothing different than these particular assignments. There might be just one or perhaps a whole set of electronic mail servers, depending on the overall load generated. To have an actual cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the clients' hosting Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting provider will support multiple data center facility sites on different continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an authentic cloud hosting accounts provider:

dns1.online01.net

dns2.online01.net

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of DNS only exhibits that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Probably it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and maintains a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one physical server deals with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage service, as a lot of web hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, since they merely distribute file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed quite simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's merely one simple fraction of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the near future, perhaps a bunch of new clouds we presently are not informed about will surface out of the blue.