What is Cloud Web Hosting?

In general, the genuine cloud web hosting platform serves various web hosting services like web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, and so on, on different stacks of deluxe servers. Each separate service set creates a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the specific service and nothing beside it. They will all run as one server, sharing the service's load in almost the same proportions. If there is an authentic cloud web hosting service, there would be: a disk storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these different service clusters will render the so-called cloud hosting system.

The great cloud web hosting hoax. Quite common now.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud hosting these days. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only seem complicated, but in fact it is highly complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. On the wings of this universal unawareness, the "cloud web hosting merchandisers" speculate eagerly, just to get hold of the client and his/her five bucks per month. What a shame! An enormous disgrace. This is because in the web hosting business niche there are no stipulations at all. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such supervising institution. That is why the web hosting providers speculate and tell lies overtly (very directly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud hosting they in reality can distribute.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting company has a cloud hosting solution at hand, which is quite improbable, a lot of hosting servers have to be acquired. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that at the end of this article. First, let's find out what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel web hosting distributor to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, in that establishing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of proficient personnel are not a predicament, lots of cash must be invested as well. Stacks of cash. Furthermore, cPanel is not open source. That's a huge obstacle.

The deficiency of open source cloud web hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting solutions. There aren't any open source web hosting CP devices (operating with the cloud website hosting platform) as well. Hence, to have a cloud web hosting platform at hand, first of all you must develop one. In-house. Second of all, you have to fabricate the web hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based web hosting Control Panels

Modern web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to function on one web server solely. All web hosting services (data storage, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at one and the same time on a single server where these particular one-server web hosting platforms and Control Panels are installed.

The absence of open source hosting CPs

So, you have to construct a custom website hosting Control Panel that will perform uncomplicatedly and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural part of it. Proper examples of custom built cloud web hosting platforms with custom created web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Webtanium, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware equipment costs

The smallest contribution needed, only for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80,000 dollars. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud web hosting platforms can be discovered out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and nearly unclouded!