What Actually is Cloud Web Hosting?

Essentially, the real cloud website hosting platform serves separate web hosting services such as storage space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, CP, backup, etc., on separate bunches of top-notch servers. Each individual service group forms a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the specific service and nothing beside it. They will all function as one single server, sharing out the service's load in almost equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there would be: a data storage cluster, a mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol 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 individual service clusters will render the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The gigantic cloud web hosting trick. Very popular these days.

There is so much speculation revolving around about cloud web hosting today. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only appear complicated, but actually it is greatly complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this popular ignorance, the "cloud website hosting retailers" speculate strongly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five dollars a month. What a disgrace! An immense shame. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting business niche there are no stipulations whatsoever. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such legislative institution. This is why the website hosting merchandisers speculate and lie blatantly (quite directly, actually) to their clients. Notably the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's ascertain how much cloud web hosting they actually can distribute.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting corporation has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is very unbelievable, multiple web servers have to be purchased. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this article. First off, let's examine what the cloud troubles are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel hosting supplier to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, as fabricating one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified staff are not a predicament, lots of money has to be invested as well. Stacks of money. Furthermore, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense drawback.

The lack of open source cloud website hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud hosting solutions. There aren't any open source website hosting CP devices (functioning with the cloud web hosting system) either. So, to have a cloud website hosting solution at hand, first you have to set up one. In-house. Secondly, you must make the web hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based website hosting Control Panels

Modern web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are manufactured to function on one web server solely. All website hosting services (storage space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served concurrently on one web server where these particular single-server web hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are installed.

The absence of open source Control Panels

So, you must make an in-house built Control Panel that will operate unproblematically and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained component of it. Suitable examples of in-house made cloud hosting solutions with custom made website hosting CPs besides us, at Arca Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment fares

The smallest investment demanded, just for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and eighty thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud website hosting platforms can be found out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so blue... and nearly cloudless!