How Does Cloud Hosting Function?

Essentially, the real cloud website hosting platform serves distinct website hosting services like data storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on autonomous sets of leading edge servers. Each separate service set makes a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the particular service and nothing aside from it. They will all function as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in almost equal proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there would be: a data storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these autonomous service clusters will create the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The massive cloud website hosting hoax. Quite widespread today.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud web hosting now. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only appear complicated, but in reality it is highly perplexing. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. Based on this common ignorance, the "cloud web hosting retailers" speculate strongly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a disgrace! An enormous disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting business niche there are no bylaws whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The hosting industry has no such supervising organization. This is the reason why the web hosting corporations speculate and lie overtly (very directly, in fact) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud hosting they actually can distribute.

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

If a cPanel-based hosting retailer has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is very unbelievable, lots of hosting servers must be bought. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this review. First, let's find out what the cloud problems are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel hosting corporation to have the cloud website hosting platform at hand, since setting up one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient team are not a predicament, loads of cash must be invested too. Tons of cash. Furthermore, cPanel is not open source. That's a great inconvenience.

The shortage of open source cloud website hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting environments. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel GUIs (working with the cloud website hosting platform) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, in the first place you have to devise one. In-house. Secondly, you have to make the website hosting CP as well.

Single server-based web hosting Control Panels

Famous website hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to perform on one single server solely. All website hosting services (storage space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at the same time on one web server where these respective one-server website hosting systems and Control Panels are set up.

The deficiency of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to develop an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will operate uncomplicatedly and to add it within the cloud system, as if it was an inherent part of it. Suitable examples of in-house created cloud web hosting systems with in-house devised website hosting Control Panels besides us, at WANTOK Web Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision fares

The minimal investment needed, just for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, equals somewhere between 60,000 dollars and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another $15-20,000. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting systems can be encountered out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and almost cloudless!