How Cloud Hosting Works

In general, the genuine cloud hosting platform serves various web hosting services such as disk storage, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, and so on, on different packs of avant-garde web servers. Each particular service pack makes a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the given service and nothing apart from it. They will all run as one server, sharing out the service's load in practically equal proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there would 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 generate the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The mammoth cloud hosting trick. Very modern these days.

There is so much confusion revolving around about cloud hosting today. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only sound complicated, but in fact it is greatly complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this universal ignorance, the "cloud website hosting firms" speculate fiercely, just to secure the client and his/her five bucks per month. What a disgrace! An enormous disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting business niche there are no decrees at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such supervising organization. This is the reason why the hosting wholesalers speculate and tell lies openly (very directly, in fact) to their customers. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud web hosting they indeed can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting corporation has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is very unlikely, numerous hosting servers must be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this article. First, let's see what the cloud problems are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting merchandiser to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, for building one takes years. Even when time and the provision of proficient personnel are not a predicament, a lot of money must be spent too. Mountains of cash. Furthermore, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense drawback.

The shortage of open source cloud hosting environments

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting platforms. There aren't any open source website hosting CP interfaces (operating with the cloud website hosting platform) either. So, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, in the first place you must fabricate one. In-house. In the second place, you have to set up the website hosting CP too.

Single server-based web hosting Control Panels

Today's popular website hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to perform on one web server only. All web hosting services (disk storage, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on one single web server where these particular single-server web hosting systems and web hosting CPs are set up.

The shortage of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to construct an in-house built website hosting CP that will operate faultlessly and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained part of it. Suitable examples of in-house developed cloud web hosting platforms with custom made website hosting Control Panels besides us, at Golden Delta, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision expenses

The smallest investment needed, only for the cloud hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 dollars and $80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS mechanism, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud hosting platforms can be detected out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and almost unclouded!