How Does Cloud Hosting Operate?

Essentially, the genuine cloud web hosting platform serves different web hosting services such as web space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on separate sets of cutting-edge servers. Each particular service pack generates a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the specific service and nothing apart from it. They will all run as one web server, sharing out the service's load in almost equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there would be: a disk space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these autonomous service clusters will compose the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The huge cloud hosting scam. Very popular nowadays.

There is so much confusion revolving around about cloud web hosting today. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only appear complicated, but actually it is supremely complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud web hosting is. On the basis of this popular unawareness, the "cloud website hosting providers" speculate feverishly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a shame! A vast disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting industry there are no ordinances at all. The domain industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such self-governing institution. This is why the hosting retailers speculate and lie blatantly (quite directly, in fact) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud hosting they in reality can supply.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting vendor has a cloud web hosting system at hand, which is very unbelievable, a lot of web servers have to be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this story. But before we do, let's see what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting company to have the cloud website hosting platform at hand, since developing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient staff are not an issue, plenty of money has to be spent too. Tons of cash. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a great defect.

The deficiency of open source cloud web hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting environments. There aren't any open source website hosting Control Panel GUIs (running with the cloud web hosting system) either. So, to have a cloud web hosting system at hand, first of all you have to invent one. In-house. In the second place, you must fabricate the hosting CP as well.

One server-based website hosting CPs

Today's popular hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are devised to work on a single server exclusively. All hosting services (disk storage, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served concurrently on a single web server where these given single-server web hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The absence of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you must set up a custom website hosting CP that will run unproblematically and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained component of it. Good examples of custom constructed cloud hosting systems with custom made website hosting Control Panels besides us, at (Phoenix-Computers), are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware equipment expenses

The minimum contribution wanted, only for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS appliance, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud web hosting solutions can be chanced on out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and practically unclouded!