How Does Cloud Hosting Function?

In general, the actual cloud hosting solution serves different website hosting services such as disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, hosting CP, backup, and so on, on independent sets of deluxe servers. Each specific service group constitutes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the particular service and nothing apart from it. They will all operate as one single web server, sharing the service's load in practically equal proportions. If there is an authentic cloud hosting service, there would be: a disk space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these individual service clusters will beget the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The big cloud web hosting hoax. Quite popular nowadays.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud hosting at present. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only seem perplexing, but actually it is extremely complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. Based on this widespread unawareness, the "cloud website hosting companies" speculate fervently, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five dollars per month. What a disgrace! An immense disgrace. This is because in the website hosting industry niche there are no statutes whatsoever. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such administrative institution. That is why the hosting suppliers speculate and tell lies openly (quite directly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's discover how much cloud web hosting they actually can offer.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting vendors

If a cPanel-based web hosting firm has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very unlikely, many web hosting servers have to be acquired. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this review. First off, let's explore what the cloud troubles are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel hosting vendor to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, since setting up one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified staff are not a problem, lots of cash must be spent too. Mountains of cash. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a great drawback.

The shortage of open source cloud hosting environments

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting systems. There are no open source website hosting CP interfaces (functioning with the cloud website hosting platform) either. Hence, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, in the first place you have to build one. In-house. In the second place, you must develop the web hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based website hosting Control Panels

Contemporary website hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are created to run on a single web server solely. All web hosting services (disk space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at the same time on a single server where these specific one-server web hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are installed.

The deficiency of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to invent a custom website hosting CP that will work impeccably and to integrate it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible constituent of it. Appropriate examples of custom manufactured cloud website hosting solutions with in-house created web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Domaine Shops, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment costs

The minimal investment wanted, only for the cloud hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS device, which is another $15-20,000. Now you realize how many cloud hosting solutions can be encountered out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so azure... and practically cloudless!