How Does Cloud Hosting Operate?

What is cloud hosting really? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's IT, World Wide Web and web hosting jargon. Nevertheless, only a few in fact are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a quite lengthy tale succinct, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote disk storage service, which involves one disk storage device for all customers, does not transform any given provider into a real cloud hosting packages provider.

The cPanel web hosting providers call the ability to deliver remote data storage services a cloud hosting service. Until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about hosting services, not remote file storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared hosting service, driven by a one-server hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining components of the entire hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The rest of the 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 distributors can actually do it.

2. It Entails Domain Names, E-mail Accounts, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage only. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving numerous domain names, online portals, mail aliases, and so on, aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than supplying merely remote data storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted just to the mail associated services. Doing nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be only one single or perchance an entire collection of e-mail servers, determined by the total server load produced. To have an actual cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, regardless of their real amount. Carrying out nothing different. The same goes for the customers' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud hosting provider will support multiple data center locations on multiple continents.

Here's an illustration of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting company:

dns1.www.avarhost.com

dns2.www.avarhost.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting solutions provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be sure when you see a Domain Name Server like the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

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

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Description of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not restricted just to a remote data storage solution, as many web hosting corporations wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting providers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, because they simply distribute file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform appears really quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's merely one tiny constituent of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the near future, possibly several brand new clouds we currently don't know about will come up out of nowhere.