How Cloud Web Hosting Functions

In general, the genuine cloud hosting solution serves distinct web hosting services like storage space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, Control Panel, backup, and so on, on independent stacks of top-quality servers. Each separate service pack produces a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the given service and nothing beside it. They will all function as one single server, sharing out the service's load in practically equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there must be: a web space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these autonomous service clusters will build the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The huge cloud web hosting hoax. Quite widespread now.

There is so much speculation circulating around about cloud hosting now. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only sound complicated, but actually it is intensely perplexing. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this popular ignorance, the "cloud web hosting suppliers" speculate fervently, just to get hold of the client and his/her five dollars per month. What a shame! A vast disgrace. This is because in the website hosting business niche there are no rules at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such self-governing body. That is why the website hosting traders speculate and lie openly (very bluntly, actually) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's discover how much cloud web hosting they in reality can supply.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting merchandisers

If a cPanel-based web hosting distributor has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is very improbable, loads of web hosting servers must be secured. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this story. First, let's find out what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting company to keep the cloud hosting platform at hand, for fabricating one takes years. Even when time and the provision of proficient personnel are not a predicament, a lot of cash has to be invested too. Mountains of cash. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous drawback.

The shortage of open source cloud hosting environments

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting systems. There are no open source web hosting CP user interfaces (working with the cloud web hosting solution) as well. So, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, first you must make one. In-house. In the second place, you must develop the website hosting Control Panel too.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Modern website hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are manufactured to operate on one web server only. All web hosting services (storage space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at the same time on one single web server where these respective single-server website hosting systems and web hosting CPs are set up.

The lack of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to construct an in-house built CP that will operate flawlessly and to incorporate it within the cloud system, as if it was an ingrained part of it. Appropriate examples of in-house constructed cloud web hosting systems with in-house manufactured hosting CPs besides us, at Web Hosting Services, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment expenses

The minimal contribution needed, only for the cloud hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80,000 dollars. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another fifteen-twenty thousand dollars. Now you do know how many cloud hosting platforms can be stumbled upon out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so azure... and nearly unclouded!