How Does Cloud Hosting Work?

How Does Cloud Hosting Work?

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What is cloud hosting actually? The term 'cloud' seems to be very modern in today's information technology, World Wide Web and hosting terms. Yet, just a select few in fact are informed about what cloud hosting is. Perchance it is a sensible idea to inform yourself about cloud hosting services. To render a quite long story brief, we will first acquaint you with what cloud hosting is not.

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

1. Providing a remote file storage service, which involves one single data storage tool for all clients, does not turn any given web hosting corporation into an authentic cloud hosting supplier.

The cPanel web hosting corporations dub the ability to provide remote file storage solutions a cloud hosting solution. So far there is nothing bad about the cloud terminology, but... we are discussing web hosting services, not remote disk storage solutions for individual or corporate purposes. There's always one "but", isn't there? It's not enough to name a shared web hosting service, based on a single-server hosting platform, precisely like cPanel, a "cloud hosting" service. That's because the other components of the entire web hosting platform must be working in precisely the same manner - this does not refer solely to the remote disk storage. The other services entailed in the entire hosting process also have to be remote, separated and "clouded". And that's very problematical. A very small number of hosting service providers can truly make it.

2. It Encompasses Domains, Email Mailboxes, Databases, FTPs, Web Hosting CPs, etc.

Cloud hosting is not confined to a remote file storage solely. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving multiple domain names, online portals, e-mail box accounts, and so on, aren't we?

To call a web hosting service a "cloud hosting" one demands a lot more than supplying just remote file storage mounts (or perhaps servers). The mail server(s) have to be dedicated exclusively to the electronic mail associated services. Performing nothing different than these particular procedures. There might be just one or perchance an entire group of e-mail servers, based on the total load produced. To have a genuine cloud hosting solution, the remote database servers should be working as one, irrespective of their real amount. Carrying out nothing else. The same goes for the customers' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, and so on.

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

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a real cloud hosting plans provider will support multiple datacenter locations on multiple continents.

Here's an example of a Domain Name Server of a genuine cloud hosting plans provider:


dns1.justaclickaway.us

dns2.justaclickaway.us


If such a DNS is supplied by your hosting accounts provider, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud hosting platform in use, but you can absolutely be certain when you observe a DNS such as the one below:


dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com


that there isn't any cloud web hosting service. This type of Domain Name Server just illustrates that the web hosting environment in use is one-single-server based. Maybe it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-server hosting platform and maintains a market share of more than 98 percent. In cPanel's case, one single server deals with all web hosting services (web, mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting Control Panel(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Twisted Explanation of Cloud Hosting.

So, a cloud hosting service is not restricted exclusively to a remote file storage service, as numerous service providers wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file hosting providers would have been categorized as cloud hosting ones a long time ago! They are not classified as such, as they simply distribute file web hosting solutions, not cloud web hosting solutions. The file hosting platform is indeed very plain, in comparison with the web hosting platform. The remote data storage platform is not a cloud hosting platform. It cannot be, since it's only one tiny component of the whole cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be discovered in the cloud web hosting platform: the web hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the Domain Name Server cloud, the File Transfer Protocol cloud, the email cloud and... in the upcoming future, maybe a bunch of brand new clouds we currently are not informed about will show up out of nowhere.

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