What is Cloud Web Hosting?

Actually, the genuine cloud web hosting platform serves distinct hosting services such as disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on independent groups of avant-garde servers. Each specific service pack forms a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the particular service and nothing aside from it. They will all operate as one single server, sharing out the service's load in practically equal proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there must be: a storage space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these different service clusters will form the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The mammoth cloud web hosting hoax. Quite widespread nowadays.

There is so much misunderstanding revolving around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can perceive, cloud web hosting does not only appear complicated, but in reality it is very complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. On the wings of this popular unawareness, the "cloud website hosting merchandisers" speculate feverishly, just to secure the client and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a shame! A big disgrace. This is because in the website hosting industry there are no tenets whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such regulative institution. This is why the web hosting companies speculate and lie overtly (quite bluntly, actually) to their customers. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud web hosting they actually can supply.

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

If a cPanel-based hosting merchant has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is very improbable, plenty of web servers must be ensured. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this article. First, let's explore what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel web hosting merchandiser to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, because of the fact that creating one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a competent team are not an issue, lots of money must be spent as well. Piles of cash. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast defect.

The shortage of open source cloud web hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud hosting systems. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel interfaces (functioning with the cloud web hosting system) either. Hence, to have a cloud web hosting system at hand, first you have to establish one. In-house. In the second place, you have to construct the hosting Control Panel too.

Single server-based web hosting CPs

Famous web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are devised to function on one single server exclusively. All website hosting services (web space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at the very same time on one web server where these given single-server web hosting platforms and website hosting Control Panels are set up.

The deficiency of open source web hosting CPs

So, you have to make a custom web hosting Control Panel that will operate flawlessly and to integrate it within the cloud system, as if it was an inherent component of it. Proper instances of in-house manufactured cloud web hosting systems with custom created web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Benoks Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware equipment prices

The minimal contribution demanded, just for the cloud web hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80,000 dollars. That's excluding the DDoS apparatus, which is another fifteen-twenty thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud web hosting systems can be found out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost cloudless!