What Actually is Cloud Web Hosting?

In general, the genuine cloud web hosting platform serves separate web hosting services such as web space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on separate groups of cutting-edge servers. Each particular service pack produces a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the specific service and nothing apart from it. They will all run as one single server, sharing out the service's load in approximately equal proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there must be: a disk space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these individual service clusters will create the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The mammoth cloud web hosting swindle. Quite widespread at the moment.

There is so much speculation revolving around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can perceive, cloud web hosting does not only appear complicated, but in fact it is extremely complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. On the wings of this widely spread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting retailers" speculate strongly, just to secure the customer and his/her five bucks per month. What a disgrace! A huge shame. This is because in the hosting industry there are no principles whatsoever. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such regulative institution. That is why the website hosting merchandisers speculate and tell lies overtly (very directly, in fact) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud web hosting they actually can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting supplier has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is quite improbable, loads of web servers have to be bought. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that at the end of this story. But before we do, let's explore what the cloud troubles are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel web hosting supplier to keep the cloud website hosting system at hand, because devising one requires years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified personnel are not a problem, lots of cash has to be invested as well. Mountains of money. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense drawback.

The absence of open source cloud web hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting systems. There aren't any open source web hosting CP GUIs (functioning with the cloud website hosting platform) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud web hosting platform at hand, first of all you must develop one. In-house. Secondly, you have to set up the web hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Modern web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to run on one single web server solely. All hosting services (data storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at the same time on one single web server where these respective single-server website hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The lack of open source website hosting CPs

So, you must construct a custom web hosting Control Panel that will function flawlessly and to accommodate it within the cloud system, as if it was an ingrained constituent of it. Appropriate instances of custom made cloud website hosting solutions with custom developed web hosting CPs besides us, at Libertywebhost, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision costs

The minimum contribution required, just for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between $60,000 and $80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you are well aware of how many cloud web hosting systems can be found out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and practically unclouded!