Cloud Web Hosting Explanation

Essentially, the real cloud web hosting platform serves different web hosting services such as web space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting CP, backup, and so on, on separate sets of leading edge web servers. Each specific service pack creates a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the given service and nothing beside it. They will all operate as one web server, sharing the service's load in practically equivalent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud web hosting service, there should be: a storage space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these individual service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The enormous cloud web hosting scam. Very common nowadays.

There is so much misunderstanding revolving around about cloud web hosting now. As you can perceive, cloud web hosting does not only appear complicated, but in fact it is highly complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud web hosting is. On the basis of this popular ignorance, the "cloud web hosting corporations" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a disgrace! A huge shame. This is due to the fact that in the website hosting industry niche there are no decrees at all. The domain industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such regulatory institution. That is why the website hosting suppliers speculate and tell lies overtly (quite directly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's determine how much cloud hosting they in reality can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting wholesaler has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is very unlikely, numerous web hosting servers must be obtained. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this review. First off, let's find out what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting merchant to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, as establishing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of professional personnel are not a problem, loads of cash must be spent as well. Tons of money. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's a huge downside.

The shortage of open source cloud web hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud hosting platforms. There aren't any open source web hosting Control Panel tools (running with the cloud website hosting platform) either. Therefore, to have a cloud web hosting system at hand, in the first place you must create one. In-house. In the second place, you have to devise the website hosting CP too.

One server-based website hosting Control Panels

Today's popular website hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are set up to perform on one single web server only. All web hosting services (disk storage, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at the very same time on one web server where these respective single-server web hosting platforms and web hosting CPs are set up.

The deficiency of open source CPs

So, you have to make a custom web hosting Control Panel that will perform faultlessly and to include it within the cloud system, as if it was an inherent part of it. Proper instances of custom developed cloud website hosting systems with in-house devised web hosting CPs besides us, at ThreeMen.Net, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision fares

The smallest investment demanded, only for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80 thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS appliance, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud web hosting platforms can be encountered out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so blue... and practically cloudless!