How Does Cloud Hosting Work?

Actually, the genuine cloud hosting platform serves separate web hosting services like disk space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on independent groups of very powerful web servers. Each different service group creates a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all run as one single server, sharing out the service's load in practically the same proportions. If there is an authentic cloud hosting service, there should be: a web space cluster, an email cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these independent service clusters will construct the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The great cloud hosting deceit. Very popular these days.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud hosting today. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only seem complicated, but in reality it is very perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting traders" speculate eagerly, just to secure the customer and his/her five bucks per month. What a shame! An immense disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting business niche there are no norms whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such administrative body. This is why the hosting traders speculate and tell lies openly (quite bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's learn how much cloud hosting they in fact can supply.

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

If a cPanel-based hosting distributor has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is quite unlikely, loads of hosting servers have to be ensured. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this review. But before we do, let's see what the cloud problems are. So, it's very unbelievable for a cPanel hosting trader to keep the cloud web hosting system at hand, since establishing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of professional personnel are not a predicament, plenty of money must be invested too. Heaps of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a big predicament.

The lack of open source cloud hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud web hosting solutions. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel interfaces (operating with the cloud website hosting platform) as well. So, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, in the first place you have to build one. In-house. Secondly, you must fabricate the web hosting CP as well.

Single server-based website hosting CPs

Modern web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to perform on a single web server exclusively. All web hosting services (web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served concurrently on one server where these respective single-server website hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The deficiency of open source hosting Control Panels

So, you must invent a custom web hosting Control Panel that will operate uncomplicatedly and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent constituent of it. Proper examples of in-house constructed cloud web hosting solutions with custom constructed web hosting CPs besides us, at Lirix, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision prices

The minimum investment demanded, only for the cloud hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between $60,000 USD and $80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS tool, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud hosting systems can be chanced on out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and practically cloudless!