
Essentially, the actual cloud hosting platform serves different hosting services like disk storage, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting CP, backup, etc., on individual packs of very advanced web servers. Each different service group constitutes a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing aside from it. They will all run as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in practically the same proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there must be: a data storage cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these independent service clusters will build the so-called cloud hosting platform.
There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud web hosting these days. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only seem perplexing, but in reality it is supremely perplexing. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this popular unawareness, the "cloud web page hosting wholesalers" speculate strongly, just to get hold of the client and his/her five bucks per month. What a shame! A vast disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the website hosting business niche there are no tenets at all. The domain industry has ICANN. The web page hosting industry niche has no such administrative organization. This is the reason why the web space hosting merchants speculate and tell lies blatantly (quite bluntly, actually) to their clients. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud hosting they indeed can distribute.
If a cPanel-based web hosting distributor has a cloud webspace hosting platform at hand, which is quite unlikely, lots of web hosting servers must be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this article. But before we do, let's see what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel web hosting vendor to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, because of the fact that fabricating one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a professional staff are not a predicament, lots of cash has to be spent as well. Stacks of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense defect.
There are no open source cloud web page hosting environments. There are no open source web site hosting CP instruments (operating with the cloud web page hosting system) as well. So, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, in the first place you must create one. In-house. Secondly, you must set up the hosting Control Panel as well.
Famous site hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are built to operate on one server exclusively. All web hosting services (disk storage, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web site hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served simultaneously on a single web server where these particular single-server web hosting platforms and CPs are installed.
So, you have to develop a custom web site hosting Control Panel that will function flawlessly and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent constituent of it. Appropriate examples of custom made cloud website hosting systems with custom developed hosting CPs are: MediaTemple, ResellersPanel, FreeHostia, Lonex, 50Webs and NTC Hosting.
The smallest investment needed, just for the cloud web page hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between $60,000 USD and eighty thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you do know how many cloud web space hosting solutions can be found out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and practically cloudless!