How Does Cloud Website Hosting Operate?

In general, the real cloud website hosting solution serves different hosting services like disk space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, Control Panel, backup, etc., on separate groups of leading edge servers. Each different service set forms a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing else. They will all function as one single server, sharing the service's load in nearly equal proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a data storage cluster, a mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these autonomous service clusters will construct the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The big cloud web hosting swindle. Quite popular nowadays.

There is so much confusion circulating around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only appear complicated, but in reality it is intensely complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. On the basis of this widespread ignorance, the "cloud hosting providers" speculate feverishly, just to secure the customer and his/her five dollars per month. What a shame! An immense disgrace. This is because in the hosting industry niche there are no ordinances at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such self-controlling body. This is the reason why the hosting traders speculate and tell lies blatantly (very bluntly, actually) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's learn how much cloud hosting they indeed can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting distributor has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very unlikely, many web servers must be secured. Which is also not cheap. 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 very unlikely for a cPanel hosting wholesaler to keep the cloud web hosting platform at hand, for fabricating one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a competent team are not a predicament, a lot of cash must be spent as well. Piles of money. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast defect.

The shortage of open source cloud website hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting systems. There aren't any open source CP tools (functioning with the cloud web hosting system) either. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, in the first place you have to devise one. In-house. In the second place, you must make the web hosting CP as well.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Popular web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are built to perform on one server only. All web hosting services (data storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at one and the same time on one single server where these specific single-server web hosting systems and CPs are installed.

The deficiency of open source Control Panels

So, you must build a custom website hosting Control Panel that will operate flawlessly and to include it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible component of it. Suitable examples of in-house devised cloud website hosting platforms with custom constructed website hosting CPs besides us, at Africa Hosting Server, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment charges

The minimum investment required, just for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and $80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS device, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting platforms can be chanced on out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so azure... and virtually cloudless!