What Indeed is Cloud Website Hosting?

Essentially, the actual cloud website hosting solution serves individual hosting services such as disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on autonomous stacks of cutting-edge web servers. Each specific service group forms a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the specific service and nothing aside from it. They will all function as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in almost equivalent proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there would be: a storage space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a website hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these different service clusters will generate the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The great cloud website hosting fraud. Quite modern these days.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud web hosting these days. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only appear complicated, but actually it is intensely perplexing. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. Based on this common ignorance, the "cloud website hosting vendors" speculate strongly, just to secure the customer and his/her five bucks per month. What a shame! A vast disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting industry niche there are no norms at all. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such self-regulative institution. This is why the web hosting suppliers speculate and lie openly (quite directly, actually) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud web hosting they in reality can distribute.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting wholesaler has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is quite unlikely, plenty of web hosting servers have to be secured. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this review. But before we do, let's see what the cloud problems are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel web hosting trader to keep the cloud website hosting system at hand, since developing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of professional personnel are not a predicament, plenty of money has to be spent as well. Piles of money. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast problem.

The absence of open source cloud website hosting environments

There are no open source cloud web hosting platforms. There are no open source web hosting CP user interfaces (operating with the cloud web hosting solution) either. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, first you must establish one. In-house. Secondly, you have to develop the web hosting CP too.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Today's popular website hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are created to perform on one server solely. All website hosting services (storage space, electronic 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 particular one-server website hosting systems and website hosting Control Panels are set up.

The deficiency of open source website hosting CPs

So, you have to make a custom website hosting Control Panel that will function impeccably and to add it within the cloud system, as if it was an ingrained part of it. Proper examples of custom created cloud web hosting systems with in-house invented web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Cheap Domains, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment rates

The minimal contribution wanted, just for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between $60,000 and $80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS tool, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud website hosting platforms can be detected out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and nearly unclouded!