How Cloud Web Hosting Operates
In general, the genuine cloud web hosting platform serves separate web hosting services such as disk space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on separate bunches of leading edge web servers. Each individual service set constitutes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the specific service and nothing beside it. They will all run as one single web server, sharing the service's load in nearly equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there should be: a storage space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these autonomous service clusters will render the so-called cloud website hosting system.
The mammoth cloud web hosting fraud. Quite modern now.
There is so much confusion going around about cloud hosting nowadays. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only appear perplexing, but actually it is extremely perplexing. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. On the basis of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting firms" speculate intensely, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a shame! A huge shame. This is because in the web hosting business there are no regulations at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such supervisory body. This is why the hosting firms speculate and lie openly (quite bluntly, in fact) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud web hosting they indeed can provide.
The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" hosting corporations
If a cPanel-based hosting merchandiser has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is quite improbable, loads of web servers must be acquired. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that towards the end of this article. But before we do, let's see what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting trader to have the cloud website hosting platform at hand, because making one takes years. Even when time and the provision of an experienced staff are not a problem, plenty of money must be invested as well. Piles of money. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's a great predicament.
The deficiency of open source cloud web hosting platforms
There are no open source cloud website hosting systems. There aren't any open source web hosting CP GUIs (functioning with the cloud website hosting platform) either. Therefore, to have a cloud web hosting system at hand, in the first place you must make one. In-house. Second of all, you have to fabricate the hosting CP too.
Single server-based hosting CPs
Famous web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are manufactured to function on one single server exclusively. All website hosting services (disk space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on one single server where these specific single-server web hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are installed.
The shortage of open source Control Panels
So, you have to build a custom web hosting CP that will work flawlessly and to integrate it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible part of it. Appropriate instances of custom constructed cloud web hosting platforms with custom developed web hosting CPs besides us, at , are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.
Cloud web hosting hardware provision expenses
The minimal contribution needed, only for the cloud web hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and 80,000 dollars. That's omitting the DDoS device, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud web hosting solutions can be detected out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so turquoise... and practically cloudless!