Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting

Essentially, the genuine cloud website hosting platform serves individual website hosting services such as disk space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, etc., on separate sets of very advanced web servers. Each separate service group creates a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all perform as one web server, sharing out the service's load in approximately equivalent proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there would be: a storage space cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these different service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The huge cloud hosting swindle. Very common now.

There is so much confusion revolving around about cloud web hosting now. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only sound perplexing, but in reality it is supremely perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this common unawareness, the "cloud website hosting wholesalers" speculate eagerly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a shame! A vast shame. This is because in the web hosting business there are no tenets whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such regulatory institution. This is the reason why the website hosting merchandisers speculate and lie overtly (quite directly, actually) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud hosting they indeed can supply.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting vendor has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is quite unlikely, plenty of hosting servers must be obtained. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this article. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting corporation to have the cloud website hosting platform at hand, since building one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient staff are not a problem, a lot of money has to be invested too. Piles of money. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous defect.

The deficiency of open source cloud website hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud web hosting systems. There are no open source CP GUIs (operating with the cloud website hosting solution) as well. Hence, to have a cloud website hosting solution at hand, first you have to develop one. In-house. Second of all, you must construct the website hosting CP too.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Modern web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to operate on one single web server solely. All website hosting services (web space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, CP, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on one server where these respective one-server website hosting systems and Control Panels are set up.

The lack of open source web hosting CPs

So, you must construct an in-house built website hosting CP that will perform uncomplicatedly and to accommodate it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible part of it. Suitable instances of custom devised cloud hosting solutions with custom created web hosting CPs besides us, at Iwindows, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision expenses

The smallest contribution wanted, just for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 USD and $80,000. That's excluding the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting solutions can be encountered out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and almost cloudless!