What is Cloud Hosting?

Essentially, the genuine cloud website hosting solution serves separate hosting services such as disk space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, CP, backup, etc., on independent stacks of cutting-edge servers. Each specific service group generates a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the specific service and nothing aside from it. They will all work as one web server, sharing out the service's load in almost equal proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there must be: a disk storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these separate service clusters will beget the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The massive cloud web hosting fraud. Quite widespread at the moment.

There is so much confusion circulating around about cloud hosting these days. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only appear perplexing, but in reality it is very perplexing. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this popular unawareness, the "cloud website hosting companies" speculate strongly, just to secure the client and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a shame! An immense shame. This is due to the fact that in the website hosting business niche there are no enactments at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such regulative organization. This is the reason why the web hosting distributors speculate and tell lies blatantly (very directly, actually) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud hosting they in fact can provide.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting merchants

If a cPanel-based website hosting merchant has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is very improbable, a lot of web servers have to be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this review. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel web hosting firm to keep the cloud web hosting platform at hand, owing to the fact that fabricating one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a professional team are not a predicament, lots of money must be invested too. Piles of cash. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast downside.

The deficiency of open source cloud website hosting systems

There are no open source cloud hosting systems. There are no open source web hosting CP devices (running with the cloud web hosting system) either. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, first of all you must construct one. In-house. Second of all, you have to construct the web hosting CP too.

One server-based website hosting CPs

Modern web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to work on one server solely. All website hosting services (disk space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on a single web server where these respective one-server web hosting systems and CPs are installed.

The lack of open source web hosting CPs

So, you must create a custom web hosting Control Panel that will run impeccably and to accommodate it within the cloud system, as if it was an inbuilt component of it. Good instances of custom set up cloud website hosting systems with in-house made website hosting Control Panels besides us, at Business Web Hosts, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment costs

The smallest investment required, just for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 USD and $80,000. That's excluding the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting platforms can be chanced on out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and almost cloudless!