What In Fact is Cloud Website Hosting?

Essentially, the actual cloud website hosting platform serves various hosting services such as disk storage, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on independent sets of leading edge servers. Each single service pack creates a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the specific service and nothing beside it. They will all work as one single server, sharing the service's load in nearly equipollent proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a disk space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these independent service clusters will create the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The great cloud website hosting hoax. Quite modern today.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud hosting today. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only sound perplexing, but in fact it is intensely complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting suppliers" speculate strongly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a shame! A big disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting business there are no rules whatsoever. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such supervising body. That is the reason why the web hosting vendors speculate and tell lies blatantly (quite bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud web hosting they in fact can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting company has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is quite improbable, loads of web servers must be bought. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that at the end of this article. First off, let's see what the cloud problems are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel web hosting wholesaler to keep the cloud hosting system at hand, as constructing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified personnel are not a problem, a lot of cash has to be invested as well. Tons of money. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's a great downside.

The shortage of open source cloud website hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting systems. There are no open source CP user interfaces (working with the cloud web hosting system) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting solution at hand, first of all you have to make one. In-house. Secondly, you have to devise the web hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based website hosting Control Panels

Modern hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to perform on a single web server only. All web hosting services (data storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at one and the same time on one single server where these given one-server web hosting systems and hosting CPs are installed.

The absence of open source hosting CPs

So, you have to fabricate a custom web hosting CP that will operate uncomplicatedly and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent part of it. Suitable instances of in-house invented cloud hosting platforms with custom developed web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Host Magi, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision prices

The minimal investment demanded, only for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between $60,000 and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS tool, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud website hosting platforms can be discovered out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and practically unclouded!