How Does Cloud Website Hosting Function?

In general, the genuine cloud website hosting solution serves various website hosting services like disk space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, etc., on independent stacks of cutting-edge servers. Each particular service pack makes a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the particular service and nothing aside from it. They will all operate as one single web server, sharing the service's load in practically the same proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a disk storage cluster, a mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol 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 make the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The colossal cloud hosting scam. Very common these days.

There is so much speculation circulating around about cloud hosting now. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only seem perplexing, but in fact it is very complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. Based on this universal ignorance, the "cloud web hosting wholesalers" speculate fervently, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a disgrace! A vast disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting business niche there are no decrees whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The hosting industry has no such regulatory body. That is why the web hosting firms speculate and tell lies openly (very bluntly, in fact) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's discover how much cloud hosting they indeed can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based hosting company has a cloud hosting platform at hand, which is very unlikely, numerous web servers have to be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this review. But before we do, let's see what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel web hosting merchant to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, owing to the fact that creating one requires years. Even when time and the provision of professional personnel are not a problem, plenty of money must be spent too. Mountains of cash. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's a huge problem.

The absence of open source cloud website hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting environments. There aren't any open source Control Panel user interfaces (running with the cloud web hosting system) either. So, to have a cloud website hosting solution at hand, first of all you have to devise one. In-house. Secondly, you must create the website hosting CP as well.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Modern website hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to perform on one web server exclusively. All web hosting services (web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on one single server where these particular one-server website hosting systems and website hosting Control Panels are installed.

The shortage of open source website hosting CPs

So, you must invent an in-house built website hosting CP that will work faultlessly and to integrate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained part of it. Suitable instances of custom created cloud hosting solutions with in-house set up website hosting CPs besides us, at Greathost, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision rates

The minimum investment needed, only for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS device, which is another $15-20,000. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting solutions can be stumbled upon out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so azure... and nearly unclouded!