Cloud Hosting Revealed

Essentially, the actual cloud hosting platform serves different web hosting services such as disk space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on different stacks of top-quality web servers. Each specific service pack constitutes a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all perform as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in approximately identical proportions. If there is an authentic cloud hosting service, there would be: a web space cluster, an email cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these separate service clusters will generate the so-called cloud hosting platform.

The mammoth cloud web hosting scam. Quite modern today.

There is so much speculation circulating around about cloud web hosting at the moment. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but actually it is extremely perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this universal unawareness, the "cloud hosting merchandisers" speculate fiercely, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five bucks a month. What a shame! A huge disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no statutes at all. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such self-governing body. That is the reason why the hosting distributors speculate and tell lies overtly (quite bluntly, in fact) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's ascertain how much cloud web hosting they in fact can supply.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting company has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is quite unbelievable, numerous web servers must be obtained. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this article. First off, let's find out what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting company to keep the cloud hosting platform at hand, owing to the fact that devising one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified staff are not a problem, lots of money has to be spent too. Mountains of money. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's a huge inconvenience.

The shortage of open source cloud hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting systems. There aren't any open source website hosting Control Panel user interfaces (running with the cloud web hosting solution) as well. So, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, first of all you must make one. In-house. Second of all, you must establish the web hosting CP too.

One server-based hosting CPs

Famous website hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are manufactured to work on one server exclusively. All web hosting services (web space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on a single web server where these respective single-server hosting platforms and website hosting Control Panels are installed.

The shortage of open source hosting CPs

So, you have to devise an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will function uncomplicatedly and to incorporate it within the cloud system, as if it was a natural part of it. Good instances of custom developed cloud website hosting systems with in-house set up website hosting CPs besides us, at Adirondack Online Services, LLC, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment costs

The smallest contribution wanted, only for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 dollars and 80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS tool, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting systems can be chanced on out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost cloudless!