How Does Cloud Web Hosting Operate?

Actually, the authentic cloud website hosting solution serves different website hosting services such as storage space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on individual hosts of high-end servers. Each separate service set creates a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the particular service and nothing else. They will all work as one web server, sharing out the service's load in practically equal proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there would be: a disk storage cluster, a mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these independent service clusters will form the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The enormous cloud web hosting scam. Very popular now.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud web hosting these days. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only seem complicated, but in fact it is excessively complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. Based on this universal unawareness, the "cloud website hosting vendors" speculate eagerly, just to secure the customer and his/her five dollars per month. What a disgrace! A huge shame. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no stipulations at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such supervising institution. That is the reason why the web hosting corporations speculate and lie blatantly (very bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's discover how much cloud web hosting they indeed can provide.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting provider has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is quite unlikely, a lot of web servers have to be acquired. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this article. First, let's find out what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very unbelievable for a cPanel hosting supplier to keep the cloud website hosting system at hand, for developing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a professional staff are not a problem, lots of money has to be spent too. Heaps of money. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's a huge predicament.

The absence of open source cloud website hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud web hosting environments. There are no open source web hosting CP instruments (working with the cloud web hosting platform) as well. So, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, first of all you must make one. In-house. In the second place, you must develop the website hosting CP too.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Famous web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to function on a single server solely. All website hosting services (disk space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on a single web server where these specific single-server web hosting systems and CPs are set up.

The deficiency of open source web hosting CPs

So, you have to create a custom web hosting CP that will run perfectly and to integrate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible component of it. Good instances of custom made cloud hosting solutions with custom made website hosting CPs besides us, at Melanesia Web Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment costs

The minimum investment demanded, just for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and eighty thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting systems can be found out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so blue... and practically unclouded!