Explanation of Cloud Website Hosting

Actually, the authentic cloud website hosting solution serves individual web hosting services like storage space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting CP, backup, etc., on different hosts of very advanced servers. Each separate service group constitutes a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the given service and nothing apart from it. They will all function as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in nearly the same proportions. If there is a genuine cloud website hosting service, there should be: a data storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these independent service clusters will render the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The colossal cloud hosting swindle. Quite widespread these days.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud web hosting today. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only seem complicated, but actually it is greatly complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. On the basis of this widespread ignorance, the "cloud web hosting wholesalers" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a shame! An enormous disgrace. This is because in the website hosting industry niche there are no bylaws at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such administrative organization. That is the reason why the web hosting vendors speculate and lie openly (quite directly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's determine how much cloud hosting they in reality can distribute.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting vendors

If a cPanel-based website hosting merchant has a cloud web hosting system at hand, which is quite improbable, lots of hosting servers have to be paid for. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that at the end of this article. But before we do, let's find out what the cloud problems are. So, it's very unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting distributor to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, as inventing one requires years. Even when time and the provision of proficient personnel are not a problem, lots of money has to be spent too. Heaps of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous obstacle.

The shortage of open source cloud website hosting systems

There are no open source cloud website hosting platforms. There aren't any open source web hosting CP GUIs (operating with the cloud web hosting system) either. Hence, to have a cloud website hosting solution at hand, first of all you have to fabricate one. In-house. Secondly, you have to fabricate the web hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Modern web hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are invented to perform on a single web server exclusively. All web hosting services (data storage, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at the same time on one web server where these given single-server web hosting systems and website hosting CPs are set up.

The deficiency of open source web hosting CPs

So, you must create an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will operate unproblematically and to integrate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent part of it. Appropriate examples of custom made cloud hosting systems with custom manufactured web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Geldbach Solutions GmbH, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision costs

The minimum investment demanded, only for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, equals somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80,000 dollars. That's excluding the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you do know how many cloud website hosting solutions can be encountered out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and almost cloudless!