What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

Actually, the real cloud website hosting platform serves different hosting services like data storage, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, Control Panel, backup, and so on, on autonomous sets of very advanced web servers. Each specific service pack forms a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all run as one web server, sharing the service's load in almost identical proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a disk space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these different service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The huge cloud hosting hoax. Very widespread nowadays.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only sound complicated, but in reality it is supremely complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting merchants" speculate feverishly, just to secure the client and his/her five bucks per month. What a disgrace! A huge shame. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting business niche there are no principles at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such regulative institution. This is the reason why the hosting providers speculate and tell lies blatantly (quite bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud web hosting they actually can provide.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting corporation has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is quite unlikely, many web hosting servers have to be obtained. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this article. But before we do, let's explore what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel web hosting trader to have the cloud hosting platform at hand, for fabricating one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient staff are not a problem, loads of cash has to be invested as well. Piles of money. Furthermore, cPanel is not open source. That's a great disadvantage.

The deficiency of open source cloud website hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting platforms. There are no open source web hosting CP devices (operating with the cloud website hosting solution) as well. Hence, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, in the first place you must create one. In-house. Second of all, you must invent the web hosting Control Panel too.

One server-based website hosting CPs

Today's popular website hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are made to operate on one server only. All website hosting services (data storage, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served concurrently on one single server where these specific one-server website hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The lack of open source website hosting CPs

So, you have to set up an in-house built website hosting CP that will perform flawlessly and to add it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible constituent of it. Suitable instances of custom constructed cloud web hosting systems with in-house developed website hosting CPs besides us, at DNA Central, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision fees

The minimum investment needed, only for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between $60,000 and 80,000 dollars. That's omitting the DDoS tool, which is another fifteen-twenty thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting solutions can be encountered out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and practically cloudless!