How Does Cloud Hosting Operate?

What is cloud hosting in reality? The word 'cloud' appears to be quite fashionable in today's IT, Internet and hosting parlance. Even so, just a select few actually are familiar with what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a smart idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a very lengthy tale short, we will firstly tell you what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Delivering a remote disk storage solution, which comprises one single disk storage device for all users, does not transform any given web hosting vendor into an actual cloud hosting company.

The cPanel hosting vendors call the ability to supply remote data storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting solutions, not remote file storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared hosting solution, powered by a single-server web hosting environment, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" solution. This is so because the remaining fractions of the whole web hosting platform must be operating in exactly the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote data storage. The remaining services involved in the entire web hosting procedure also must be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's very difficult. Very few web hosting providers can really achieve it.

2. It Includes Domain Names, Mailbox Accounts, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not restricted to a remote file storage exclusively. We are discussing a web hosting service, serving multiple domain names, websites, electronic mails, etc., are we not?

To dub a hosting service a "cloud hosting" one requires a lot more than providing just remote file storage mounts (or perchance physical servers). The email server(s) must be dedicated exclusively to the electronic mail related services. Executing nothing different than these specific tasks. There might be just one or maybe an entire bunch of electronic mail servers, based on the overall load generated. To have a real cloud hosting service, the remote database servers should be performing as one, irrespective of their real amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same is valid for the users' CPs, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

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

Here's an example of a DNS of an actual cloud hosting solutions provider:

dns1.neelumhost.com

dns2.neelumhost.com

If such a Domain Name Server is provided by your hosting vendor, it's not a sure thing that there is a cloud hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you observe a Domain Name Server like the one below:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud web hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server just shows that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Perhaps it's cPanel. cPanel is a single-server hosting platform and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single physical server copes with all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Warped Interpretation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting solution is not confined simply to a remote file storage solution, as numerous hosting suppliers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, the majority of the file web hosting providers would have been classified as cloud hosting ones a long time back! They are not referred to as such, since they simply provide file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting services. The file hosting platform seems indeed very plain, when compared to the hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, because it's simply one tiny part of the entire cloud web hosting platform. There's plenty more to be discovered in the cloud hosting platform: the web hosting CP cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the near future, perchance a bunch of new clouds we presently are not aware of will show up out of the blue.