Cloud Web Hosting Clarified

Actually, the actual cloud website hosting platform serves individual website hosting services like disk storage, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on different sets of avant-garde web servers. Each particular service pack generates a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the given service and nothing else. They will all operate as one server, sharing the service's load in nearly equipollent proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there must be: a data storage cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these individual service clusters will create the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The huge cloud website hosting swindle. Very widespread at the moment.

There is so much misunderstanding going around about cloud hosting today. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only sound complicated, but actually it is supremely complicated. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. On the basis of this universal unawareness, the "cloud website hosting vendors" speculate intensely, just to secure the client and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a shame! A vast disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting industry niche there are no rules whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such regulatory body. That is the reason why the web hosting corporations speculate and tell lies blatantly (quite directly, in fact) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud web hosting they indeed can distribute.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting company has a cloud web hosting system at hand, which is quite unbelievable, numerous servers have to be acquired. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that at the end of this story. But before we do, let's explore what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting distributor to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, because of the fact that inventing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of expert personnel are not a problem, a lot of cash must be invested as well. Mountains of cash. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's a huge obstacle.

The lack of open source cloud website hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting solutions. There aren't any open source web hosting CP interfaces (functioning with the cloud website hosting solution) either. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, first of all you have to create one. In-house. Secondly, you must develop the web hosting Control Panel too.

One server-based website hosting Control Panels

Famous web hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are built to work on one single server only. All web hosting services (web space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on one single server where these specific single-server website hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are installed.

The deficiency of open source web hosting CPs

So, you have to construct a custom website 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 in-house built cloud website hosting platforms with custom manufactured hosting Control Panels besides us, at izazap, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment costs

The smallest investment demanded, just for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between $60,000 USD and eighty thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS device, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud website hosting systems can be found out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and practically unclouded!