Explanation of Cloud Web Hosting

In general, the real cloud web hosting solution serves distinct web hosting services such as web space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on autonomous bunches of very powerful web servers. Each specific service group creates a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the specific service and nothing beside it. They will all perform as one web server, sharing out the service's load in nearly equivalent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud web hosting service, there must be: a data storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these autonomous service clusters will create the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The great cloud web hosting deceit. Very widespread nowadays.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud web hosting today. As you can perceive, cloud web hosting does not only sound perplexing, but in reality it is very complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud web hosting is. Based on this common unawareness, the "cloud web hosting firms" speculate fervently, just to secure the client and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a shame! A huge shame. This is because in the website hosting industry niche there are no ordinances at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such supervisory body. That is the reason why the hosting merchants speculate and lie overtly (very directly, in fact) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's learn how much cloud web hosting they in reality can provide.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting vendors

If a cPanel-based web hosting trader has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very unlikely, plenty of hosting servers must be acquired. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this article. First off, let's find out what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel web hosting merchant to have the cloud website hosting platform at hand, for setting up one takes years. Even when time and the provision of an expert staff are not a predicament, loads of cash must be invested as well. Stacks of money. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous drawback.

The lack of open source cloud web hosting environments

There are no open source cloud web hosting solutions. There are no open source hosting Control Panel instruments (running with the cloud web hosting solution) either. Hence, to have a cloud web hosting solution at hand, first you have to build one. In-house. Second of all, you have to make the web hosting CP too.

One server-based website hosting CPs

Popular web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to operate on one web server solely. All website hosting services (web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at the very same time on a single server where these specific single-server web hosting systems and web hosting CPs are installed.

The absence of open source hosting CPs

So, you must devise a custom web hosting Control Panel that will run unproblematically and to include it within the cloud system, as if it was an inherent part of it. Good examples of custom manufactured cloud web hosting systems with custom built website hosting CPs besides us, at MRK Web Solutions, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision expenses

The smallest investment required, just for the cloud web hosting hardware equipment, equals somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and eighty thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud web hosting solutions can be stumbled upon out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and practically unclouded!