What Does Cloud Web Hosting Stand for?

Actually, the real cloud web hosting platform serves different hosting services like data storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on separate stacks of high-end servers. Each separate service group generates a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the particular service and nothing else. They will all perform as one server, sharing the service's load in approximately the same proportions. If there is a genuine cloud web hosting service, there would be: a data storage cluster, an email cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these independent service clusters will make the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The huge cloud hosting deceit. Quite common at present.

There is so much misunderstanding going around about cloud web hosting these days. As you can perceive, cloud web hosting does not only appear complicated, but in reality it is intensely complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. On the basis of this widely spread unawareness, the "cloud website hosting companies" speculate intensely, just to secure the customer and his/her five dollars a month. What a shame! An immense shame. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no tenets at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such self-regulative organization. That is the reason why the hosting corporations speculate and lie openly (very bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's ascertain how much cloud web hosting they in reality can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting merchant has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very improbable, plenty of web servers must be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this article. First off, let's examine what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel web hosting supplier to keep the cloud hosting system at hand, since inventing one requires 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. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a great defect.

The lack of open source cloud web hosting environments

There are no open source cloud web hosting environments. There aren't any open source website hosting CP devices (working with the cloud web hosting platform) as well. So, to have a cloud web hosting system at hand, first you must build one. In-house. Secondly, you must establish the website hosting Control Panel too.

Single server-based hosting CPs

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

The shortage of open source website hosting CPs

So, you have to develop an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will operate perfectly and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent part of it. Suitable examples of custom made cloud hosting solutions with in-house invented website hosting Control Panels besides us, at Master Web Manager, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware equipment expenses

The smallest investment demanded, just for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud web hosting solutions can be found out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and almost cloudless!