What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

Essentially, the actual cloud website hosting platform serves various website hosting services like data storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on autonomous sets of cutting-edge servers. Each different service group forms a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the particular service and nothing else. They will all perform as one single server, sharing out the service's load in nearly equipollent proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there must be: a storage space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these different service clusters will form the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The gigantic cloud web hosting fraud. Quite common now.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud hosting at present. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only sound complicated, but in reality it is intensely perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this popular unawareness, the "cloud web hosting merchants" speculate eagerly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a disgrace! An immense shame. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting business niche there are no laws whatsoever. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such self-governing body. This is why the web hosting firms speculate and lie openly (very directly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's ascertain how much cloud hosting they in reality can supply.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting retailer has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is quite unbelievable, plenty of web hosting servers must be obtained. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that towards the end of this article. First off, let's explore what the cloud troubles are. So, it's very unbelievable for a cPanel hosting firm to keep the cloud web hosting platform at hand, as devising one takes years. Even when time and the provision of experienced personnel are not a predicament, plenty of cash has to be invested as well. Stacks of cash. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a big downside.

The deficiency of open source cloud website hosting environments

There are no open source cloud website hosting platforms. There aren't any open source web hosting Control Panel devices (operating with the cloud hosting platform) either. So, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, first you must establish one. In-house. Secondly, you must develop the website hosting Control Panel too.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Modern web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are invented to work on a single web server exclusively. All website hosting services (disk space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served simultaneously on one server where these given single-server web hosting systems and Control Panels are installed.

The absence of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you have to make a custom web hosting CP that will perform impeccably and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural constituent of it. Good instances of custom created cloud web hosting platforms with in-house constructed website hosting CPs besides us, at the Consult, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision fares

The minimum investment wanted, just for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and eighty thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS tool, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting platforms can be stumbled upon out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and practically unclouded!