How Does Cloud Hosting Function?

What is cloud hosting in fact? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modish in today's IT, Internet and web hosting phraseology. Even so, only a select few in fact can say what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a smart idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite lengthy tale concise, we will firstly describe to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Offering a remote disk storage service, which involves one data storage device for all customers, does not convert any specific web hosting corporation into a genuine cloud hosting provider.

The cPanel hosting companies dub the ability to provide remote file storage services a cloud hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are talking about website hosting solutions, not remote data storage solutions for personal or corporate needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting service, driven by a single-server web hosting platform, just like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other pieces of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same way - this does not apply solely to the remote data storage. The rest of the services involved in the entire hosting process also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very scanty number of hosting corporations can truly do it.

2. It Includes Domains, Mails, Databases, FTPs, Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving countless domains, web sites, email box accounts, etc., aren't we?

To call a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than providing just remote data storage mounts (or maybe servers). The e-mail server(s) have to be dedicated only to the email connected services. Doing nothing else than these particular assignments. There might be just one single or possibly a whole bundle of e-mail servers, determined by the total load generated. To have a real cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real quantity. Performing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' hosting CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting vendor will support numerous data center facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a DNS of an authentic cloud hosting company:

dns1.connektiva.com

dns2.connektiva.com

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

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server simply illustrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one server takes care of all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting Control Panel(s), files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Distorted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined only to a remote disk storage service, as multiple hosting suppliers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not categorized as such, because they simply furnish file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file web hosting platform seems indeed quite simple, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's just one simple part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a bunch of new clouds we currently don't know about will emerge unexpectedly.