Cloud hosting is something quite new to the hosting community and most people don’t really understand what cloud hosting really is, really.
How Cloud Hosting Functions
Essentially, the genuine cloud web hosting solution serves various web hosting services such as disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on independent stacks of cutting-edge web servers. Each individual service group constitutes a cluster. All the hosting 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 out the service’s load in practically identical proportions. If there is an authentic cloud web 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 statistics cluster, a Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these different service clusters will generate the so-called cloud hosting platform.
The substantial cloud web hosting trick. Quite widespread today.
There is so much speculation revolving around about cloud web hosting today. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only appear complicated, but in reality it is supremely complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud web hosting is. On the wings of this widespread unawareness, the “cloud web hosting providers” speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a disgrace! A great shame. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting industry there are no regulations whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such supervising body. This is why the website hostingfirms speculate and lie blatantly (very bluntly, actually) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let’s determine how much cloud web hosting they in fact can distribute.
The truth about the cPanel-based “cloud” website hosting providers
If a cPanel-based web hosting retailer has a cloud hosting platform at hand, which is quite unbelievable, numerous servers have to be purchased. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this story. But before we do, let’s explore what the cloud complications are. So, it’s quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting wholesaler to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, owing to the fact that devising one takes years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified personnel are not an issue, lots of money has to be invested as well. Stacks of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That’s a huge downside.
The deficiency of open source cloud web hosting solutions
There are no open source cloud web hosting platforms. There aren’t any open source hosting Control Panel devices (operating with the cloud web hosting solution) either. So, to have a cloud web hosting platform at hand, first of all you have to invent one. In-house. Secondly, you have to establish the CP as well.
Single server-based web hosting CPs
Today’s popular hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are constructed to run on a single web server exclusively. All web hosting services (disk space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the very same time on one single server where these specific one-server website hosting platforms and hosting Control Panels are set up.
Cloud web hosting hardware equipment costs
The smallest investment required, only for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That’s excluding the DDoS tool, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud web hosting platforms can be encountered out there… and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so azure… and nearly unclouded!
