How Cloud Hosting Works

What is cloud hosting actually? The term 'cloud' seems to be very fashionable in today's computing, Internet and hosting jargon. Even so, just a few really are aware of what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very long tale succinct, we will firstly inform you about what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single file storage appliance for all customers, does not turn any specific web hosting service provider into a genuine cloud hosting plans provider.

The cPanel hosting vendors name the ability to distribute remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting service. Up until now there is nothing bad about the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to dub a shared hosting solution, powered by a one-server hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the remaining pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not apply solely to the remote file storage. The other services entailed in the whole web hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite hard. A very scanty number of web hosting corporations can really attain it.

2. It Includes Domains, E-mails, Databases, FTPs, Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are discussing a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, online portals, e-mail boxes, etc., are we not?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than delivering plainly remote disk storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated solely to the electronic mail related services. Executing nothing else than these specific procedures. There might be only one or perchance an entire collection of mail servers, determined by the overall server load created. To have a real cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the users' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud hosting packages provider will support numerous data center facility sites on different continents.

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

dns1.dlinkhost.com

dns2.dlinkhost.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

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

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Definition of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined exclusively to a remote file storage solution, as numerous hosting companies wish it was. Unfortunately for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting firms would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones long ago! They are not categorized as such, as they plainly furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed quite plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one simple fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, maybe a number of brand new clouds we currently are not aware of will surface unexpectedly.