What is Cloud Website Hosting?

In general, the real cloud website hosting solution serves individual website hosting services like disk space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, etc., on independent sets of very powerful web servers. Each specific service group forms a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the particular service and nothing aside from it. They will all operate as one web server, sharing out the service's load in approximately equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there would be: a disk space cluster, a mail 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 separate service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud hosting platform.

The immense cloud web hosting trick. Quite popular today.

There is so much speculation circulating around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only appear perplexing, but in fact it is intensely complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. On the basis of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting traders" speculate eagerly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five dollars per month. What a shame! A huge shame. This is because in the website hosting business there are no laws whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such supervisory organization. That is why the web hosting vendors speculate and tell lies blatantly (quite bluntly, actually) to their customers. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud web hosting they in fact can distribute.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting wholesaler has a cloud web hosting system at hand, which is very unlikely, numerous web hosting servers must be obtained. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this article. First off, let's see what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel web hosting supplier to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, for fabricating one demands years. Even when time and the provision of an expert team are not a predicament, loads of money has to be invested too. Tons of cash. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a great predicament.

The shortage of open source cloud website hosting environments

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting systems. There are no open source web hosting CP tools (functioning with the cloud web hosting solution) as well. So, to have a cloud website hosting solution at hand, in the first place you must build one. In-house. Second of all, you have to make the website hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based website hosting CPs

Today's popular web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are invented to perform on one single web server only. All website hosting services (disk space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served concurrently on one single web server where these respective one-server hosting platforms and website hosting Control Panels are installed.

The lack of open source web hosting CPs

So, you have to create an in-house built website hosting Control Panel that will function impeccably and to integrate it within the cloud system, as if it was an ingrained part of it. Appropriate instances of in-house devised cloud web hosting systems with custom made website hosting CPs besides us, at Super Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment costs

The minimum investment demanded, only for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 USD and $80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you do know how many cloud website hosting solutions can be chanced on out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so blue... and virtually unclouded!