How Does Cloud Web Hosting Operate?

Actually, the genuine cloud website hosting platform serves individual web hosting services like disk storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, etc., on separate bunches of top-notch servers. Each particular service set forms a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the given service and nothing else. They will all operate as one server, sharing out the service's load in nearly the same proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there should be: a data storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these separate service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The substantial cloud website hosting scam. Quite common now.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud hosting now. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only sound complicated, but in reality it is greatly complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. On the basis of this widely spread unawareness, the "cloud website hosting merchants" speculate intensely, just to secure the client and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a shame! A huge disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the hosting industry niche there are no laws at all. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such self-controlling body. This is why the website hosting wholesalers speculate and lie openly (very bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud hosting they in fact can provide.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting wholesalers

If a cPanel-based hosting retailer has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is quite improbable, multiple web hosting servers have to be ensured. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that at the end of this review. First, let's examine what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting firm to have the cloud website hosting platform at hand, because devising one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a professional team are not an issue, loads of cash has to be spent as well. Heaps of cash. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's a big drawback.

The deficiency of open source cloud website hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting environments. There are no open source Control Panel devices (functioning with the cloud website hosting solution) either. So, to have a cloud website hosting solution at hand, in the first place you have to develop one. In-house. In the second place, you have to establish the hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based hosting Control Panels

Modern web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are devised to run on a single server only. All hosting services (storage space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at the same time on one single server where these specific single-server website hosting platforms and Control Panels are set up.

The deficiency of open source web hosting CPs

So, you must set up a custom web hosting Control Panel that will run flawlessly and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent component of it. Suitable examples of in-house invented cloud website hosting solutions with in-house built website hosting Control Panels besides us, at hostprod.com, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment costs

The smallest investment required, only for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS mechanism, which is another $15-20,000. Now you are well aware of how many cloud website hosting platforms can be chanced on out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and practically unclouded!