How Does Cloud Hosting Function?

What is cloud hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modish in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting jargon. Nevertheless, only a few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Probably it is a good idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale succinct, we will first let you know what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote data storage service, which comprises one disk storage device for all customers, does not transform any specific web hosting distributor into an actual cloud hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting companies name the ability to deliver remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for individual or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the other fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire web hosting process also must be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. Very few web hosting vendors can actually achieve it.

2. It Encompasses Domain Names, Mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a hosting service, serving numerous domains, web pages, mail aliases, and so on, are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than furnishing just remote file storage mounts (or maybe servers). The email server(s) have to be dedicated solely to the mail linked services. Doing nothing else than these concrete procedures. There might be just one single or maybe an entire array of electronic mail servers, based on the overall server load produced. To have an actual cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, regardless of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the customers' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting vendor will support multiple datacenter sites on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting packages provider:

dns1.au.f7en.biz

dns2.au.f7en.biz

If such a Domain Name Server is furnished by your hosting services provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be sure when you see a Domain Name Server such as the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting service. This sort of DNS plainly illustrates that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one physical machine deals with all web hosting services (web, electronic mail, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), web files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not limited simply to a remote data storage solution, as a lot of service providers wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting companies would have been classified as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, because they plainly offer file hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform is really very simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one tiny constituent of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, possibly a number of brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will turn up out of the blue.