How Does Cloud Hosting Operate?

What is cloud hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite modern in today's computing, Internet and hosting lingo. Still, only a few really know what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To make a very lengthy story succinct, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Hosting is Not Limited to a Remote File Storage Solely.

1. Supplying a remote data storage solution, which involves one single file storage appliance for all clients, does not transform any particular hosting supplier into an authentic cloud hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to provide remote disk storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. Up till now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are discussing website hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for personal or corporate purposes. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, powered by a single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other constituents of the whole hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not relate only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services entailed in the entire web hosting process also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really hard. A very small number of web hosting corporations can truly make it.

2. It Includes Domains, Mail Aliases, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a hosting solution, serving many domains, web portals, e-mails, etc., aren't we?

To dub a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one takes a lot more than providing only remote data storage mounts (or probably servers). The electronic mail server(s) have to be devoted solely to the email linked services. Performing nothing else than these particular procedures. There might be just one or probably an entire bunch of electronic mail servers, determined by the total load produced. To have a true cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their actual number. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the clients' web hosting Control Panels, the FTP, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a true cloud hosting solutions provider will support multiple server farm facility sites on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud hosting solutions provider:

dns1.virtualnix.com

dns2.virtualnix.com

If such a Domain Name Server is offered by your hosting company, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment 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 platform. This sort of Domain Name Server simply shows that the hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Perchance it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, a single physical server deals with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted just to a remote data storage solution, as lots of hosting distributors wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file service providers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, since they merely deliver file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting solutions. The file hosting platform looks really quite simple, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one small fraction of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be encountered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the mail cloud and... in the upcoming future, possibly several new clouds we presently are not aware of will surface unexpectedly.