What Precisely is Cloud Website Hosting?
In general, the genuine cloud website hosting platform serves various website hosting services like storage space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on autonomous packs of very powerful servers. Each specific service group makes a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the given service and nothing aside from it. They will all operate as one server, sharing the service's load in approximately equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there should be: a disk space cluster, an email cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a website hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these independent service clusters will render the so-called cloud web hosting system.
The huge cloud hosting trick. Very common these days.
There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud hosting at present. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only seem perplexing, but in fact it is supremely perplexing. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting merchandisers" speculate fiercely, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a disgrace! A vast shame. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting business niche there are no regulations whatsoever. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such regulative body. This is the reason why the hosting distributors speculate and lie overtly (quite directly, in fact) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud hosting they in reality can furnish.
The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting distributors
If a cPanel-based hosting company has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is very unlikely, plenty of hosting servers have to be bought. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this article. First, let's examine what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting supplier to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, due to the fact that devising one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient staff are not an issue, lots of cash must be invested too. Piles of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a great disadvantage.
The deficiency of open source cloud website hosting solutions
There are no open source cloud website hosting systems. There are no open source Control Panel interfaces (operating with the cloud website hosting solution) either. So, to have a cloud website hosting solution at hand, in the first place you have to make one. In-house. Secondly, you must build the web hosting Control Panel as well.
Single server-based hosting Control Panels
Famous web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are constructed to function on one single web server solely. All web hosting services (storage space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at the same time on one server where these respective single-server web hosting platforms and web hosting CPs are installed.
The lack of open source web hosting CPs
So, you have to establish an in-house built website hosting Control Panel that will work unproblematically and to incorporate it within the cloud system, as if it was an inbuilt component of it. Suitable examples of custom set up cloud website hosting systems with in-house invented web hosting Control Panels besides us, at , are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.
Cloud website hosting hardware provision fares
The minimum contribution required, only for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between $60,000 USD and $80,000. That's excluding the DDoS mechanism, which is another fifteen-twenty thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting systems can be stumbled upon out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and almost cloudless!