How Does Cloud Web Hosting Work?

In general, the real cloud web hosting platform serves different website hosting services such as web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on independent groups of very advanced servers. Each particular service pack constitutes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the given service and nothing else. They will all work as one web server, sharing out the service's load in almost equal proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there has to be: a disk space cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these autonomous service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud hosting system.

The great cloud hosting scam. Very widespread today.

There is so much speculation circulating around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can perceive, cloud web hosting does not only sound perplexing, but actually it is very complicated. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud web hosting is. Based on this widely spread unawareness, the "cloud hosting corporations" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five dollars per month. What a shame! An enormous disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the hosting industry niche there are no bylaws at all. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such supervisory institution. This is why the web hosting corporations speculate and tell lies openly (quite directly, in fact) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's discover how much cloud web hosting they in reality can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based hosting firm has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is quite improbable, a lot of hosting servers have to be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this story. But before we do, let's explore what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting merchant to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, in that creating one requires years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified personnel are not a predicament, a lot of cash must be invested as well. Heaps of cash. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous disadvantage.

The absence of open source cloud web hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud web hosting platforms. There aren't any open source web hosting Control Panel instruments (working with the cloud web hosting solution) either. So, to have a cloud web hosting platform at hand, in the first place you have to create one. In-house. In the second place, you have to devise the web hosting CP too.

Single server-based website hosting CPs

Popular web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to function on one server exclusively. All web hosting services (disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the very same time on one single server where these given single-server web hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are installed.

The shortage of open source hosting Control Panels

So, you must build an in-house built Control Panel that will run impeccably and to include it within the cloud system, as if it was a natural part of it. Proper examples of in-house built cloud website hosting platforms with custom devised website hosting Control Panels besides us, at AtoZWebSolution, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision fares

The minimal investment wanted, only for the cloud web hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between $60,000 USD and $80,000. That's omitting the DDoS device, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud web hosting platforms can be chanced on out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and practically cloudless!