What is Cloud Website Hosting?

In general, the actual cloud web hosting solution serves different web hosting services such as disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on individual groups of cutting-edge servers. Each specific service set forms a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing aside from it. They will all operate as one single web server, sharing the service's load in almost equal proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there would be: a disk storage cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these individual service clusters will render the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The immense cloud web hosting fraud. Quite popular nowadays.

There is so much speculation revolving around about cloud hosting at present. As you can perceive, cloud web hosting does not only seem complicated, but in fact it is extremely perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud web hosting is. On the basis of this widespread ignorance, the "cloud website hosting firms" speculate intensely, just to get hold of the client and his/her five dollars a month. What a shame! A huge disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the website hosting industry there are no rules at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such regulative body. That is the reason why the website hosting retailers speculate and lie overtly (very bluntly, actually) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud web hosting they in reality can distribute.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting wholesaler has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is very unlikely, a lot of web servers must be bought. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this article. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel web hosting provider to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, due to the fact that devising one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified staff are not an issue, plenty of cash must be spent as well. Stacks of money. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense obstacle.

The shortage of open source cloud web hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting platforms. There aren't any open source hosting Control Panel instruments (functioning with the cloud website hosting system) either. So, to have a cloud web hosting system at hand, first of all you have to develop one. In-house. In the second place, you must make the website hosting Control Panel too.

Single server-based web hosting CPs

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

The shortage of open source web hosting CPs

So, you must construct an in-house built website hosting Control Panel that will operate flawlessly and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural constituent of it. Appropriate instances of in-house constructed cloud web hosting solutions with custom constructed website hosting CPs besides us, at nuvulu, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision rates

The minimal investment demanded, just for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between $60,000 and $80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS tool, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud web hosting systems can be detected out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so azure... and nearly cloudless!