How Cloud Web Hosting Functions

In general, the genuine cloud website hosting solution serves different web hosting services like disk space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on individual bunches of high-end web servers. Each particular service group creates a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the particular service and nothing else. They will all work as one server, sharing the service's load in almost equipollent proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a disk storage cluster, an email cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these separate service clusters will render the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The big cloud website hosting hoax. Quite modern nowadays.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud hosting now. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only sound complicated, but actually it is supremely complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. On the basis of this popular unawareness, the "cloud website hosting vendors" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the client and his/her five bucks per month. What a disgrace! An enormous disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no rules at all. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such self-governing institution. That is the reason why the web hosting companies speculate and tell lies overtly (quite bluntly, actually) to their clients. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's ascertain how much cloud hosting they actually can offer.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting retailers

If a cPanel-based hosting merchant has a cloud hosting system at hand, which is quite unbelievable, multiple web hosting servers must be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this article. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud problems are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel hosting vendor to keep the cloud web hosting platform at hand, because inventing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of an expert staff are not an issue, lots of cash must be invested as well. Mountains of cash. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense drawback.

The lack of open source cloud website hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting systems. There aren't any open source website hosting Control Panel interfaces (functioning with the cloud hosting system) either. Hence, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, first you have to fabricate one. In-house. Second of all, you have to develop the web hosting Control Panel too.

One server-based website hosting Control Panels

Modern website hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to run on one single server only. All website hosting services (storage space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served simultaneously on one single web server where these given single-server website hosting systems and hosting Control Panels are set up.

The absence of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you must invent an in-house built CP that will perform flawlessly and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained component of it. Suitable instances of custom made cloud web hosting solutions with custom set up website hosting Control Panels besides us, at iNet Bulgaria, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision charges

The minimal investment needed, just for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between 60,000 dollars and eighty thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS appliance, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting solutions can be discovered out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and nearly unclouded!