How Cloud Web Hosting Works

Actually, the actual cloud website hosting platform serves different website hosting services like web space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on different hosts of avant-garde servers. Each separate service pack produces a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the particular service and nothing else. They will all work as one single web server, sharing the service's load in nearly the same proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a disk storage cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these separate service clusters will form the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The great cloud web hosting scam. Quite widespread at the moment.

There is so much speculation revolving around about cloud hosting today. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only appear perplexing, but in reality it is very complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. Based on this common unawareness, the "cloud web hosting distributors" speculate intensely, just to secure the client and his/her five bucks a month. What a shame! A big disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the website hosting industry niche there are no regulations whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such self-governing institution. This is the reason why the web hosting corporations speculate and lie overtly (very directly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud web hosting they actually can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting company has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is quite unbelievable, loads of servers have to be ensured. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that at the end of this article. First, let's find out what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting provider to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, for setting up one takes years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified personnel are not a problem, lots of money must be spent as well. Mountains of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous disadvantage.

The absence of open source cloud website hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud website hosting systems. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel tools (working with the cloud web hosting platform) either. So, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, first you must invent one. In-house. Second of all, you must invent the web hosting CP as well.

Single server-based web hosting CPs

Today's popular website hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are created to function on one web server exclusively. All hosting services (data storage, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at the same time on one web server where these particular one-server web hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The shortage of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you have to establish an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will operate flawlessly and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained component of it. Appropriate examples of custom developed cloud web hosting solutions with in-house manufactured web hosting CPs besides us, at BigHost, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision fees

The minimum contribution needed, just for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80 thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS device, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting solutions can be discovered out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so turquoise... and practically unclouded!