What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

In general, the actual cloud web hosting solution serves different hosting services such as storage space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on autonomous stacks of cutting-edge servers. Each particular service pack generates a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the given service and nothing aside from it. They will all perform as one server, sharing out the service's load in nearly identical proportions. If there is a genuine cloud web hosting service, there should be: a web 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, and so on. All these autonomous service clusters will build the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The enormous cloud website hosting scam. Very popular now.

There is so much misunderstanding going around about cloud hosting at the moment. As you can perceive, cloud web hosting does not only appear perplexing, but in reality it is very perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. On the basis of this universal unawareness, the "cloud website hosting distributors" speculate eagerly, just to secure the customer and his/her five dollars per month. What a shame! A great shame. This is because in the website hosting industry niche there are no laws whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such self-controlling body. That is why the web hosting vendors speculate and lie blatantly (quite bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Notably the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's ascertain how much cloud web hosting they in fact can deliver.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting firms

If a cPanel-based web hosting vendor has a cloud web hosting system at hand, which is very unlikely, many web servers must be acquired. 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 problems are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel web hosting company to keep the cloud web hosting system at hand, owing to the fact that creating one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified staff are not a problem, loads of cash must be spent as well. Piles of cash. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's a big defect.

The deficiency of open source cloud web hosting systems

There are no open source cloud web hosting systems. There are no open source website hosting Control Panel devices (running with the cloud hosting system) as well. Hence, to have a cloud web hosting solution at hand, in the first place you must develop one. In-house. Secondly, you have to construct the web hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Modern website hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are invented to operate on a single server only. All web hosting services (web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served concurrently on a single web server where these given single-server website hosting platforms and web hosting CPs are installed.

The absence of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to build a custom website hosting CP that will run flawlessly and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained part of it. Good examples of in-house created cloud web hosting solutions with custom made web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Hosting India, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision prices

The smallest contribution needed, only for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between 60,000 dollars and $80,000. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another $15-20,000. Now you realize how many cloud web hosting platforms can be discovered out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost unclouded!