How Cloud Website Hosting Functions

What is cloud website hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting lingo. Still, only a select few in fact can tell what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a good idea to educate yourself about cloud website hosting services. To render a quite long story brief, we will firstly let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote disk storage service, which involves one disk storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any specific web hosting service provider into an actual cloud website hosting provider.

The cPanel hosting vendors name the ability to supply remote disk storage solutions a cloud website hosting service. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage services for individual or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, based on a single-server hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud website hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The other services involved in the whole hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. A very meager number of hosting vendors can truly attain it.

2. It Involves Domains, Mails, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud website hosting is not limited to a remote data storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving countless domains, web pages, mail aliases, etc., aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud website hosting" one demands a lot more than delivering only remote data storage mounts (or perhaps physical servers). The email server(s) need to be devoted just to the e-mail related services. Carrying out nothing else than these given procedures. There might be just one or perhaps a whole pack of email servers, based on the overall server load created. To have a genuine cloud website hosting solution, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual number. Performing nothing else. The same goes for the customers' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a genuine cloud website hosting packages provider:

dns1.liquidnet.co.uk

dns2.liquidnet.co.uk

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you observe a Domain Name Server such as the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This kind of DNS only reveals that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one server deals with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, web hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

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

So, a cloud website hosting solution is not limited simply to a remote data storage solution, as plenty of web hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting corporations would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not categorized as such, since they merely deliver file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's just one small constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, perhaps several new clouds we presently are not aware of will come up out of the blue.