How Cloud Hosting Works

What is cloud hosting really? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite trendy in today's computing, Internet and web hosting jargon. However, just a select few actually are aware of what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale brief, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Supplying a remote disk storage service, which comprises one single data storage tool for all clients, does not convert any specific hosting service provider into a genuine cloud hosting solutions provider.

The cPanel hosting providers dub the ability to offer remote disk storage services a cloud hosting solution. Up until now there is nothing wrong with the cloud labeling, but... we are talking about web hosting solutions, not remote disk storage solutions for private or corporate needs. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to dub a shared web hosting solution, powered by a one-single-server hosting environment, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the remaining pieces of the whole web hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not refer only to the remote data storage. The remaining services entailed in the whole hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very tough. A very meager number of web hosting suppliers can really do it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Email Boxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not limited to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a hosting solution, serving multiple domains, web sites, electronic mails, etc., are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one calls for a lot more than delivering only remote data storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The e-mail server(s) need to be devoted solely to the electronic mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these particular assignments. There might be only one or maybe a whole group of e-mail servers, determined by the total load generated. To have an authentic cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be operating as one, irrespective of their real number. Carrying out nothing different. The same is valid for the clients' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting accounts provider will support multiple server farm sites on different continents.

Here's an instance of a Domain Name Server of a true cloud hosting supplier:

dns1.zyloshost.com

dns2.zyloshost.com

If such a DNS is provided by your web hosting services provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can definitely be convinced when you notice a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server plainly exhibits that the web hosting platform in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server hosting solution and holds a market share of more than 98%. In cPanel's case, one server copes with all hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, web hosting CP(s), web site files, etc.).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not limited just to a remote disk storage solution, as multiple hosting companies wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file hosting suppliers would have been referred to as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, as they simply supply file hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform appears really very plain, in comparison with the hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's simply one small constituent of the whole cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the electronic mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, possibly a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not aware of will spring up out of the blue.