Cloud Web Hosting Explanation

In general, the genuine cloud web hosting solution serves various website hosting services such as disk space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on individual packs of top-notch servers. Each specific service group produces a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the particular service and nothing apart from it. They will all operate as one server, sharing out the service's load in approximately equipollent proportions. If there is an authentic cloud web hosting service, there has to be: a data storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these independent service clusters will construct the so-called cloud hosting system.

The great cloud web hosting fraud. Very widespread at the moment.

There is so much confusion revolving around about cloud hosting at present. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only appear complicated, but in reality it is supremely complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. On the wings of this widely spread ignorance, the "cloud website hosting firms" speculate eagerly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five dollars per month. What a shame! A big disgrace. This is because in the web hosting business there are no regulations whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such self-governing organization. That is why the web hosting companies speculate and tell lies openly (very directly, in fact) to their customers. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud web hosting they in fact can supply.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting distributor has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is quite unlikely, plenty of hosting servers have to be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this review. But before we do, let's find out what the cloud troubles are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel hosting company to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, since building one takes years. Even when time and the provision of experienced personnel are not a problem, lots of money must be invested too. Stacks of money. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's a great defect.

The shortage of open source cloud web hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting systems. There are no open source web hosting CP devices (working with the cloud website hosting solution) either. Hence, to have a cloud web hosting platform at hand, in the first place you must develop one. In-house. In the second place, you have to develop the website hosting CP too.

One server-based hosting CPs

Famous website hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to function on a single server only. All web hosting services (web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on a single web server where these respective single-server web hosting systems and CPs are set up.

The lack of open source hosting CPs

So, you must invent a custom website hosting CP that will function faultlessly and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural component of it. Good examples of custom made cloud website hosting platforms with custom invented web hosting Control Panels besides us, at STARTEWEB, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware equipment costs

The smallest contribution required, only for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between $60,000 USD and $80,000. That's excluding the DDoS tool, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you realize how many cloud web hosting solutions can be discovered out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so blue... and practically unclouded!