What Does Cloud Hosting Represent?
Essentially, the real cloud website hosting solution serves distinct website hosting services such as disk space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, hosting CP, backup, and so on, on independent stacks of avant-garde web servers. Each separate service pack produces a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the given service and nothing beside it. They will all function as one server, sharing the service's load in practically equipollent proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a data storage cluster, an email cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these independent service clusters will beget the so-called cloud website hosting platform.
The colossal cloud website hosting fraud. Very common these days.
There is so much speculation going around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only seem complicated, but in fact it is very perplexing. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. On the basis of this widely spread unawareness, the "cloud website hosting distributors" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the client and his/her five bucks per month. What a shame! A great shame. This is due to the fact that in the website hosting business there are no statutes whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such regulative institution. That is why the website hosting firms speculate and tell lies openly (very bluntly, in fact) to their clients. Notably the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud web hosting they indeed can supply.
The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" hosting suppliers
If a cPanel-based web hosting merchant has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is quite unlikely, plenty of web hosting servers have to be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this review. First off, let's explore what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting retailer to keep the cloud web hosting platform at hand, because establishing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient team are not a problem, lots of cash has to be spent too. Heaps of cash. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous disadvantage.
The shortage of open source cloud website hosting environments
There are no open source cloud website hosting environments. There are no open source website hosting Control Panel user interfaces (working with the cloud website hosting platform) either. So, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, first you have to invent one. In-house. Secondly, you have to create the hosting CP as well.
One server-based Control Panels
Popular hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to work on one single server only. All web hosting services (web space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on one server where these given single-server hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are installed.
The deficiency of open source web hosting Control Panels
So, you have to set up an in-house built hosting CP that will perform unproblematically and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible part of it. Proper examples of custom created cloud hosting solutions with custom developed web hosting Control Panels besides us, at , are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.
Cloud website hosting hardware equipment prices
The minimal investment demanded, just for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and eighty thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS mechanism, which is another fifteen-twenty thousand dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud website hosting solutions can be chanced on out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and virtually unclouded!