Curious facts about the cloud webspace hosting solution
In general, the actual cloud web site hosting platform serves various hosting services like disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on autonomous bunches of very advanced servers. Each single service group creates a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the specific service and nothing apart from it. They will all perform as one single web server, sharing the service's load in almost equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there has to be: a disk space cluster, an email cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web space hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these independent service clusters will render the so-called cloud web page hosting system.
The colossal cloud site hosting fraud. Quite common now.
There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can perceive,cloud hosting does not only sound complicated, but actually it is greatly complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this universal unawareness, the "cloud web page hosting merchants" speculate strongly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a disgrace! An immense disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the hosting business niche there are no ordinances whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such self-controlling institution. This is the reason why the web page hosting merchandisers speculate and tell lies overtly (very bluntly, in fact) to their customers. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud hosting they actually can furnish.
The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" web site hosting companies
If a cPanel-based web hosting retailer has a cloud hosting solution at hand, which is quite unbelievable, numerous servers have to be bought. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this review. But before we do, let's see what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel hosting supplier to have the cloud website hosting platform at hand, since inventing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of competent personnel are not a problem, loads of money has to be spent too. Tons of money. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast predicament.
The lack of open source cloud web space hosting environments
There are no open source cloud hosting solutions. There are no open source web page hosting CP tools (working with the cloud web page hosting platform) as well. So, to have a cloud web page hosting platform at hand, first you must establish one. In-house. Second of all, you have to build the web page hosting Control Panel too.
One server-based webspace hosting Control Panels
Contemporary web page hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are made to function on a single web server exclusively. All site hosting services (disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, site hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on one single server where these particular one-server web space hosting platforms and webspace hosting Control Panels are installed.
The deficiency of open source web hosting CPs
So, you must develop a custom website hosting Control Panel that will operate impeccably and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent part of it. Good instances of in-house devised cloud hosting platforms with in-house created site hosting CPs are: RazorSharpDomains, NTCHosting, Lonex, Exclusive Hosting, FreeHostia, OpenHost, 50Webs, 100WebSpace, Fateback, MediaTemple and ResellersPanel
Cloud webspace hosting hardware equipment fees
The minimal investment needed, only for the cloud web page hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between 60,000 dollars and 80,000 dollars. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud web site hosting systems can be encountered out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so blue... and practically unclouded!