How Does Cloud Website Hosting Work?
Essentially, the authentic cloud website hosting platform serves separate hosting services such as web space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, Control Panel, backup, etc., on independent sets of very advanced web servers. Each separate service pack creates a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the given service and nothing aside from it. They will all work as one server, sharing out the service's load in almost equipollent proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there would be: a disk storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these individual service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud website hosting platform.
The enormous cloud hosting hoax. Quite widespread at present.
There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud web hosting these days. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only appear perplexing, but actually it is very complicated. 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 traders" speculate fiercely, just to get hold of the client and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a shame! An enormous shame. This is because in the web hosting business niche there are no statutes at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such self-controlling organization. That is the reason why the website hosting wholesalers speculate and lie openly (very bluntly, actually) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud hosting they actually can supply.
The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting retailers
If a cPanel-based website hosting distributor has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is quite unlikely, numerous web servers must be ensured. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this article. First, let's examine what the cloud problems are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting merchandiser to have the cloud hosting system at hand, due to the fact that inventing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of experienced personnel are not a problem, plenty of cash must be invested as well. Stacks of money. Furthermore, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense predicament.
The lack of open source cloud website hosting systems
There aren't any open source cloud web hosting solutions. There are no open source website hosting Control Panel interfaces (running with the cloud hosting system) either. Hence, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, first you must make one. In-house. Secondly, you have to develop the web hosting Control Panel too.
Single server-based web hosting CPs
Contemporary hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are built to operate on one web server solely. All web hosting services (web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on one single web server where these given one-server website hosting platforms and CPs are installed.
The absence of open source website hosting Control Panels
So, you must build a custom website hosting CP that will function unproblematically and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inbuilt component of it. Good instances of in-house constructed cloud website hosting platforms with in-house constructed web hosting CPs besides us, at , are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.
Cloud website hosting hardware equipment costs
The minimum contribution demanded, only for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and $80,000. That's excluding the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you do know how many cloud website hosting systems can be encountered out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so turquoise... and nearly unclouded!