What Exactly is Cloud Web Hosting?

Essentially, the real cloud hosting platform serves distinct website hosting services like storage space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, etc., on autonomous hosts of top-notch servers. Each specific service set produces a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the given service and nothing beside it. They will all run as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in almost the same proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there would be: a disk storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these separate service clusters will build the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The colossal cloud website hosting fraud. Quite widespread nowadays.

There is so much speculation circulating around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only sound perplexing, but actually it is intensely complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this popular ignorance, the "cloud website hosting companies" speculate strongly, just to secure the customer and his/her five dollars a month. What a disgrace! An immense disgrace. This is because in the website hosting business niche there are no enactments whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The hosting industry has no such supervisory organization. This is why the web hosting merchandisers speculate and lie blatantly (quite directly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud web hosting they indeed can distribute.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting merchandiser has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is quite unlikely, multiple servers must be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this article. First, let's see what the cloud problems are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel hosting firm to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, as devising one requires years. Even when time and the provision of competent personnel are not a predicament, a lot of money has to be spent as well. Heaps of cash. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's a big obstacle.

The lack of open source cloud hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud hosting platforms. There are no open source web hosting CP interfaces (working with the cloud website hosting solution) as well. Hence, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, first of all you have to make one. In-house. Second of all, you have to construct the website hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based web hosting CPs

Contemporary hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to perform on a single web server exclusively. All website hosting services (data storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on one single server where these given one-server web hosting systems and website hosting Control Panels are set up.

The absence of open source web hosting CPs

So, you have to create an in-house built website hosting CP that will run unproblematically and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained part of it. Good examples of in-house manufactured cloud web hosting platforms with in-house set up website hosting Control Panels besides us, at lodifyhosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment charges

The minimal investment required, only for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 dollars and eighty thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS device, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud hosting platforms can be encountered out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and almost unclouded!