Cloud Web Hosting Clarified

Actually, the actual cloud website hosting platform serves different website hosting services like storage space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on independent hosts of cutting-edge web servers. Each specific service group produces a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the particular service and nothing aside from it. They will all perform as one server, sharing the service's load in approximately equipollent proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a storage 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, and so on. All these separate service clusters will compose the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The big cloud website hosting trick. Quite common today.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud web hosting at the moment. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only sound complicated, but actually it is excessively complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud website hosting firms" speculate eagerly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a disgrace! A great shame. This is owing to the fact that in the hosting business there are no rules whatsoever. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The hosting industry niche has no such regulatory organization. That is the reason why the hosting distributors speculate and lie openly (quite bluntly, actually) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud web hosting they in reality can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting wholesaler has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is quite unlikely, plenty of web servers must be obtained. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this story. First off, let's find out what the cloud complications are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel hosting vendor to have the cloud hosting system at hand, as developing one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified staff are not a problem, lots of money has to be invested as well. Stacks of money. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a big problem.

The lack of open source cloud website hosting environments

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting systems. There aren't any open source web hosting CP devices (running with the cloud web hosting platform) as well. Hence, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, in the first place you must fabricate one. In-house. Second of all, you must devise the website hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Modern web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are devised to work on a single server solely. All website hosting services (data storage, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the very same time on a single server where these respective single-server hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The shortage of open source web hosting CPs

So, you have to fabricate a custom hosting CP that will perform uncomplicatedly and to accommodate it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible component of it. Good instances of custom devised cloud web hosting platforms with custom built web hosting CPs besides us, at DM Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment fares

The minimum investment wanted, just for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 dollars and 80,000 dollars. That's excluding the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud website hosting platforms can be discovered out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and nearly unclouded!