What Actually is Cloud Web Hosting?
Essentially, the real cloud hosting solution serves separate website hosting services such as data storage, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on individual sets of avant-garde servers. Each specific service pack produces a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing aside from it. They will all work as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in nearly equal proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there has to be: a storage space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these autonomous service clusters will create the so-called cloud web hosting system.
The colossal cloud web hosting fraud. Very popular these days.
There is so much confusion going around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but in reality it is highly complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud website hosting retailers" speculate eagerly, just to secure the customer and his/her five bucks a month. What a disgrace! A great shame. This is owing to the fact that in the hosting business there are no enactments whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such self-controlling organization. That is why the hosting providers speculate and lie overtly (very bluntly, in fact) to their clients. Notably the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud hosting they actually can furnish.
The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting merchants
If a cPanel-based website hosting distributor has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is very improbable, numerous web hosting servers have to be acquired. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this story. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting merchant to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, as establishing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a professional staff are not an issue, a lot of money must be spent too. Piles of cash. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous defect.
The shortage of open source cloud hosting solutions
There are no open source cloud web hosting solutions. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel instruments (functioning with the cloud web hosting system) either. So, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, first of all you have to construct one. In-house. In the second place, you must establish the web hosting Control Panel too.
Single server-based website hosting Control Panels
Modern web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are created to work on one single server only. All web hosting services (disk storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on one server where these particular one-server web hosting platforms and hosting CPs are installed.
The shortage of open source website hosting CPs
So, you have to construct an in-house built hosting Control Panel that will work faultlessly and to integrate it within the cloud system, as if it was a natural component of it. Appropriate examples of in-house manufactured cloud web hosting platforms with in-house manufactured hosting Control Panels besides us, at , are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.
Cloud hosting hardware equipment charges
The minimum contribution wanted, just for the cloud hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 dollars and 80,000 dollars. That's excluding the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you do know how many cloud hosting platforms can be found out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and nearly unclouded!