Definition of Cloud Website Hosting
Actually, the real cloud web hosting platform serves separate website hosting services like disk space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on independent packs of deluxe web servers. Each individual service pack produces a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the given service and nothing else. They will all run as one web server, sharing out the service's load in practically the same proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there would be: a data storage cluster, a mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these separate service clusters will beget the so-called cloud hosting platform.
The colossal cloud web hosting fraud. Quite widespread these days.
There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only seem complicated, but actually it is intensely complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. On the basis of this common unawareness, the "cloud web hosting traders" speculate fiercely, just to secure the client and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a shame! An immense shame. This is because in the website hosting industry there are no decrees whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The hosting industry niche has no such self-controlling organization. That is why the web hosting merchants speculate and tell lies openly (very bluntly, actually) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud web hosting they actually can provide.
The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting corporations
If a cPanel-based web hosting merchant has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is very unlikely, multiple servers must be purchased. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this review. But before we do, let's find out what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel hosting supplier to keep the cloud hosting system at hand, because constructing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified team are not a predicament, a lot of money must be spent too. Heaps of money. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's a huge defect.
The shortage of open source cloud web hosting environments
There are no open source cloud hosting solutions. There are no open source web hosting CP GUIs (functioning with the cloud website hosting platform) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud web hosting solution at hand, in the first place you have to develop one. In-house. Secondly, you have to build the website hosting Control Panel too.
Single server-based web hosting Control Panels
Contemporary web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to function on one single web server only. All hosting services (storage space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on one single web server where these particular one-server web hosting systems and web hosting CPs are set up.
The deficiency of open source Control Panels
So, you must build an in-house built web hosting CP that will perform impeccably and to include it within the cloud system, as if it was a natural component of it. Appropriate instances of in-house invented cloud website hosting platforms with in-house developed hosting Control Panels besides us, at , are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.
Cloud web hosting hardware equipment expenses
The smallest investment needed, just for the cloud web hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS mechanism, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you are well aware of how many cloud web hosting solutions can be encountered out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and virtually unclouded!