How Cloud Hosting Operates

What is cloud hosting indeed? The word 'cloud' seems to be quite modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and web hosting terminology. Still, only a few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very long story brief, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single file storage tool for all users, does not convert any particular web hosting firm into an actual cloud hosting accounts provider.

The cPanel hosting firms dub the ability to supply remote disk storage solutions a cloud hosting service. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud classification, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote disk storage services for individual or business needs. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other parts of the whole hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not relate solely to the remote file storage. The rest of the services entailed in the whole web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's extremely difficult. A very meager number of hosting firms can really do it.

2. It Involves Domains, Email Accounts, Databases, FTPs, CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote file storage only. We are discussing a hosting service, serving many domain names, websites, e-mail aliases, etc., are we not?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than furnishing merely remote data storage mounts (or maybe physical servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated only to the e-mail linked services. Executing nothing different than these particular tasks. There might be only one single or maybe a whole collection of mail servers, based on the overall server load created. To have a real cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual quantity. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the users' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an illustration of a DNS of a true cloud hosting provider:

dns1.www.globalnet-webhosting.com

dns2.www.globalnet-webhosting.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This type of DNS only manifests that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting solution and holds a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, one physical machine copes with all hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not limited solely to a remote file storage solution, as multiple hosting corporations wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting corporations would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, as they simply distribute file web hosting services, not cloud web hosting services. The file web hosting platform appears indeed very simple, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's merely one tiny fraction of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, maybe a bunch of brand new clouds we presently are not familiar with will surface out of nowhere.