How Cloud Web Hosting Works

Actually, the authentic cloud hosting solution serves individual website hosting services such as storage space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, Control Panel, backup, and so on, on separate stacks of avant-garde web servers. Each single service group constitutes a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all operate as one server, sharing the service's load in practically equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there should be: a data storage cluster, an email cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these individual service clusters will beget the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The massive cloud web hosting fraud. Quite popular these days.

There is so much confusion revolving around about cloud hosting now. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only seem complicated, but in reality it is intensely perplexing. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this common ignorance, the "cloud web hosting wholesalers" speculate fervently, just to secure the customer and his/her five dollars a month. What a disgrace! An immense disgrace. This is because in the hosting business there are no norms at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such administrative organization. This is why the hosting retailers speculate and tell lies overtly (very directly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud hosting they indeed can provide.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting provider has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is quite improbable, lots of hosting servers have to be bought. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this article. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud complications are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel hosting supplier to keep the cloud website hosting system at hand, owing to the fact that constructing one requires years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified personnel are not a problem, lots of money has to be invested too. Mountains of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense obstacle.

The lack of open source cloud hosting platforms

There are no open source cloud hosting solutions. There aren't any open source website hosting Control Panel user interfaces (operating with the cloud web hosting solution) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, first you must set up one. In-house. Secondly, you must build the web hosting CP as well.

One server-based hosting CPs

Modern website hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to perform on one web server solely. All website hosting services (disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the very same time on one single server where these specific one-server web hosting platforms and hosting Control Panels are set up.

The lack of open source web hosting CPs

So, you have to create an in-house built web hosting CP that will work flawlessly and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural constituent of it. Proper instances of custom developed cloud web hosting systems with custom manufactured website hosting Control Panels besides us, at Cloud4Host, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment fees

The minimal investment demanded, only for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and $80,000. That's excluding the DDoS mechanism, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud hosting platforms can be encountered out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and almost unclouded!