How Does Cloud Hosting Function?

What is cloud hosting in reality? The term 'cloud' seems to be quite fashionable in today's computing, World Wide Web and hosting lingo. Even so, only a few in fact are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perhaps it is a clever idea to educate yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite long tale brief, we will first enlighten you on what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Furnishing a remote disk storage service, which comprises one data storage appliance for all customers, does not convert any given web hosting service provider into a genuine cloud hosting provider.

The cPanel web hosting companies call the ability to deliver remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting service. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing hosting solutions, not remote file storage services for private or business needs. There's invariably one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to call a shared web hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting platform, exactly like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. That's because the remaining fractions of the entire hosting platform must be working in exactly the same manner - this does not apply only to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire hosting procedure also have to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's really problematical. A very scanty number of hosting providers can truly accomplish it.

2. It Includes Domains, Mail Addresses, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting Control Panels, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote disk storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting service, serving a lot of domains, online portals, email addresses, and so on, are we not?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than providing just remote file storage mounts (or probably servers). The mail server(s) must be dedicated just to the e-mail associated services. Carrying out nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be just one single or perchance a whole group of e-mail servers, depending on the total server load generated. To have a real cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real amount. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of an actual cloud hosting firm will support numerous server farm facility locations on multiple continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a genuine cloud hosting plans provider:

dns1.ashkloud.com

dns2.ashkloud.com

If such a DNS is offered by your hosting vendor, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be confident when you perceive a DNS like the one underneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This type of Domain Name Server merely illustrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server web hosting platform and has a market share of more than ninety eight percent. In cPanel's case, one single server deals with all web hosting services (web, email, DNS, databases, File Transfer Protocol, hosting Control Panel(s), web site files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined solely to a remote disk storage service, as lots of hosting providers wish it was. Sadly for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file service providers would have been categorized as cloud web hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, as they simply furnish file hosting services, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform appears really very simple, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote file storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's only one tiny component of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's plenty more to be found in the cloud hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the e-mail cloud and... in the not too distant future, possibly a couple of new clouds we presently are not aware of will turn up out of the blue.