How Does Cloud Website Hosting Operate?

Actually, the genuine cloud hosting solution serves various web hosting services like disk space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on separate packs of top-quality servers. Each particular service set constitutes a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the specific service and nothing apart from it. They will all function as one server, sharing out the service's load in almost identical proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there should be: a data storage cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these autonomous service clusters will generate the so-called cloud hosting system.

The gigantic cloud web hosting hoax. Very widespread today.

There is so much speculation circulating around about cloud hosting today. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only seem complicated, but in reality it is extremely complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this widely spread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting retailers" speculate eagerly, just to secure the client and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a shame! A big shame. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting business there are no statutes whatsoever. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The hosting industry has no such supervising organization. This is why the website hosting vendors speculate and lie openly (very bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud hosting they indeed can provide.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting firms

If a cPanel-based web hosting provider has a cloud web hosting system at hand, which is quite improbable, loads of web 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 see what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting provider to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, because setting up one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient staff are not a predicament, lots of money has to be spent as well. Tons of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a big downside.

The deficiency of open source cloud hosting environments

There are no open source cloud web hosting platforms. There are no open source web hosting CP tools (running with the cloud hosting solution) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, first you must fabricate one. In-house. Secondly, you must invent the web hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based web hosting CPs

Famous website hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to operate on a single server solely. All website hosting services (disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at one and the same time on one web server where these specific one-server web hosting systems and web hosting CPs are installed.

The shortage of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to develop a custom web hosting CP that will operate perfectly and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained constituent of it. Appropriate examples of in-house devised cloud web hosting platforms with in-house devised website hosting CPs besides us, at STEERWEB, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision costs

The minimal contribution wanted, just for the cloud hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between $60,000 USD and 80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS tool, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting solutions can be stumbled upon out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and virtually unclouded!