What Precisely is Cloud Website Hosting?

In general, the genuine cloud web hosting platform serves separate hosting services like disk storage, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on different stacks of avant-garde web servers. Each individual service group generates a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing else. They will all work as one server, sharing out the service's load in approximately the same proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there has to be: a disk space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these separate service clusters will build the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The big cloud website hosting hoax. Quite popular today.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only sound complicated, but actually it is extremely complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. On the wings of this widely spread ignorance, the "cloud web hosting traders" speculate eagerly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a disgrace! An enormous disgrace. This is because in the web hosting industry niche there are no stipulations whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such regulatory organization. That is why the website hosting distributors speculate and tell lies overtly (very directly, actually) to their customers. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud hosting they in reality can provide.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting merchants

If a cPanel-based web hosting corporation has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is quite unlikely, plenty of servers must be ensured. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this article. First off, let's examine what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting supplier to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, because establishing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a professional team are not a predicament, plenty of money has to be spent as well. Stacks of money. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense inconvenience.

The shortage of open source cloud web hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting solutions. There are no open source website hosting Control Panel GUIs (working with the cloud web hosting solution) either. Hence, to have a cloud web hosting platform at hand, first of all you must build one. In-house. Second of all, you must construct the website hosting CP too.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Famous web hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are made to run on one single web server only. All hosting services (storage space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on a single web server where these specific one-server web hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The lack of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you must set up an in-house built hosting Control Panel that will work perfectly and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible component of it. Good examples of in-house invented cloud website hosting platforms with custom constructed CPs besides us, at ComputerWorks Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware equipment charges

The minimum contribution required, only for the cloud web hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and $80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS apparatus, which is another $15-20,000. Now you realize how many cloud web hosting solutions can be detected out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and virtually cloudless!