Cloud Website Hosting Description

In general, the real cloud website hosting platform serves distinct web hosting services like disk space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on different hosts of avant-garde servers. Each single service group makes 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 perform as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in nearly equivalent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud website hosting service, there would be: a storage space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these different service clusters will generate the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The great cloud web hosting fraud. Very widespread at the moment.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud hosting nowadays. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only sound complicated, but in reality it is very complicated. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. On the basis of this popular unawareness, the "cloud web hosting retailers" speculate fiercely, just to secure the client and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a shame! A great disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting business niche there are no norms whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such self-controlling body. That is why the website hosting companies speculate and tell lies openly (very directly, actually) to their clients. Notably the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud web hosting they in reality can provide.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting company has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is very unlikely, loads of hosting servers have to be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this review. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting vendor to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, as devising one takes years. Even when time and the provision of expert personnel are not an issue, a lot of money has to be invested as well. Heaps of money. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's a big inconvenience.

The lack of open source cloud website hosting systems

There are no open source cloud website hosting solutions. There aren't any open source hosting Control Panel devices (operating with the cloud website hosting solution) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, in the first place you must create one. In-house. Secondly, you have to fabricate the website hosting Control Panel too.

Single server-based website hosting CPs

Today's popular web hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are built to function on one single server solely. All website hosting services (disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on one single server where these given one-server hosting platforms and hosting CPs are set up.

The deficiency of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you have to set up a custom web hosting Control Panel that will operate uncomplicatedly and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural constituent of it. Suitable examples of custom created cloud website hosting solutions with in-house set up web hosting CPs besides us, at Web Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision costs

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