How Does Cloud Hosting Function?

Actually, the real cloud hosting solution serves separate hosting services such as disk storage, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on different stacks of cutting-edge servers. Each separate service set forms a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the given service and nothing else. They will all run as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in practically equipollent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there should be: a web space cluster, an electronic mail 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 independent service clusters will produce the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The substantial cloud hosting fraud. Quite modern at present.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only sound perplexing, but actually it is greatly complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this universal ignorance, the "cloud website hosting providers" speculate intensely, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five dollars a month. What a shame! A huge shame. This is because in the website hosting business niche there are no principles at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The hosting industry has no such legislative body. This is the reason why the hosting suppliers speculate and tell lies blatantly (quite directly, actually) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's discover how much cloud web hosting they in fact can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based hosting corporation has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is quite improbable, many web hosting servers must be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this article. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud problems are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting trader to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, since inventing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of expert personnel are not a problem, lots of cash must be spent too. Mountains of cash. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's a great disadvantage.

The shortage of open source cloud hosting environments

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting platforms. There are no open source Control Panel interfaces (operating with the cloud web hosting system) either. So, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, in the first place you have to set up one. In-house. In the second place, you must build the hosting CP too.

One server-based website hosting CPs

Famous web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are set up to operate on one single web server exclusively. All hosting services (web space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served concurrently on a single server where these given one-server hosting platforms and web hosting CPs are set up.

The deficiency of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to establish a custom hosting Control Panel that will run faultlessly and to accommodate it within the cloud system, as if it was an inherent component of it. Good instances of in-house made cloud web hosting platforms with custom made web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Laredo Host, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision fees

The minimal investment demanded, just for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between $60,000 and $80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting solutions can be encountered out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and almost unclouded!