How Does Cloud Hosting Work?

What is cloud hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting jargon. Nonetheless, only a select few actually can say what cloud hosting is. Maybe it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy story succinct, we will firstly notify you about what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote Disk Storage Only.

1. Offering a remote file storage service, which comprises one single data storage tool for all users, does not transform any specific hosting service provider into an authentic cloud hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting providers call the ability to furnish remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage services for private or corporate needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, based on a one-server hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the other parts of the whole web hosting platform must be functioning in precisely the same way - this does not apply only to the remote file storage. The remaining services involved in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite problematical. A very small number of web hosting companies can actually make it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, Electronic Mails, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote disk storage only. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving many domain names, web sites, email mailbox accounts, etc., are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than distributing just remote disk storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be dedicated solely to the mail connected services. Executing nothing different than these concrete assignments. There might be only one single or perchance a whole bunch of e-mail servers, based on the overall server load generated. To have an actual cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real quantity. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' web hosting 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 plans provider will support multiple datacenter facility sites on different continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of an actual cloud hosting distributor:

dns1.hostdiversity.com

dns2.hostdiversity.com

If such a DNS is supplied by your web hosting packages provider, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can absolutely be convinced when you discern a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of DNS merely displays that the hosting platform in use is one-single-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server web hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one server handles all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Characterization of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined just to a remote file storage solution, as many web hosting firms wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file service providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly supply file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks really very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one tiny segment of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the near future, maybe several brand new clouds we currently don't know about will spring up out of nowhere.