Cloud Hosting Definition

Actually, the real cloud website hosting solution serves distinct hosting services such as storage space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on independent hosts of high-end servers. Each single service group makes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all perform as one single web server, sharing the service's load in almost the same proportions. If there is a genuine cloud website hosting service, there would be: a storage space cluster, an email cluster, an FTP 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 produce the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The immense cloud website hosting hoax. Quite popular now.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud web hosting today. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only appear complicated, but in reality it is extremely perplexing. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this universal unawareness, the "cloud web hosting merchandisers" speculate eagerly, just to get hold of the client and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a shame! A huge disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting business niche there are no statutes at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such supervisory institution. That is the reason why the website hosting vendors speculate and lie openly (quite directly, actually) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's discover how much cloud hosting they in fact can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting trader has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is quite improbable, numerous web servers have to be ensured. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that at the end of this review. But before we do, let's explore what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel hosting supplier to keep the cloud website hosting system at hand, as building one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a professional staff are not a predicament, loads of cash must be spent too. Piles of money. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast drawback.

The deficiency of open source cloud website hosting environments

There aren't any open source cloud hosting environments. There aren't any open source hosting Control Panel GUIs (running with the cloud web hosting platform) either. So, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, in the first place you must set up one. In-house. Secondly, you have to develop the web hosting CP too.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Popular web hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to function on one server solely. All web hosting services (storage space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at the very same time on one single web server where these specific one-server web hosting platforms and CPs are installed.

The deficiency of open source website hosting CPs

So, you must invent a custom hosting CP that will run flawlessly and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural component of it. Good examples of in-house constructed cloud web hosting solutions with custom invented web hosting Control Panels besides us, at IT Home Systems, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision costs

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