What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

Actually, the actual cloud website hosting platform serves different website hosting services such as disk space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on autonomous packs of deluxe web servers. Each different service group produces a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the particular service and nothing aside from it. They will all perform as one single server, sharing out the service's load in approximately equivalent proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there should be: a disk storage cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these independent service clusters will construct the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The substantial cloud web hosting trick. Quite common now.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud hosting nowadays. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only appear perplexing, but in fact it is intensely complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this popular unawareness, the "cloud web hosting merchandisers" speculate strongly, just to get hold of the client and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a disgrace! A huge disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting business niche there are no regulations at all. The domain name industry has ICANN. The hosting industry niche has no such regulative body. That is why the hosting suppliers speculate and tell lies openly (very directly, actually) to their clients. Notably the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's uncover how much cloud web hosting they in reality can offer.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting distributor has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very improbable, lots of hosting servers must be secured. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this story. First, let's find out what the cloud complications are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel hosting distributor to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, for establishing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of competent personnel are not a problem, plenty of cash must be invested too. Mountains of money. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a great defect.

The absence of open source cloud website hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting environments. There are no open source hosting CP interfaces (functioning with the cloud website hosting solution) as well. Hence, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, in the first place you have to construct one. In-house. Secondly, you have to invent the web hosting Control Panel too.

One server-based website hosting Control Panels

Contemporary web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to operate on a single server exclusively. All website hosting services (web space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on a single server where these respective one-server web hosting platforms and web hosting CPs are installed.

The deficiency of open source website hosting CPs

So, you must devise an in-house built website hosting Control Panel that will perform flawlessly and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent part of it. Good instances of custom invented cloud web hosting platforms with in-house set up web hosting Control Panels besides us, at HostFlex, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment fees

The minimum investment required, just for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between $60,000 and 80 thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS apparatus, which is another $15-20,000. Now you are well aware of how many cloud website hosting platforms can be stumbled upon out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and virtually cloudless!