What is Cloud Website Hosting?

Essentially, the authentic cloud hosting solution serves different web hosting services like storage space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, etc., on separate sets of leading edge servers. Each different service pack forms a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the specific service and nothing else. They will all perform as one single web server, sharing the service's load in almost equivalent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there must be: a storage space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these independent service clusters will build the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The big cloud website hosting fraud. Quite widespread these days.

There is so much misunderstanding revolving around about cloud hosting nowadays. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only seem complicated, but in reality it is supremely perplexing. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this widely spread ignorance, the "cloud website hosting companies" speculate fervently, just to secure the client and his/her five dollars a month. What a shame! A vast disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the website hosting industry niche there are no regulations whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such legislative body. This is why the website hosting merchants speculate and tell lies blatantly (quite bluntly, in fact) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's uncover how much cloud web hosting they in reality can supply.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting merchandisers

If a cPanel-based web hosting vendor has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is quite unbelievable, lots of hosting servers must be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this story. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud troubles are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel web hosting distributor to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, in that establishing one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a competent team are not an issue, a lot of cash must be invested as well. Mountains of cash. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a huge obstacle.

The deficiency of open source cloud hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting platforms. There are no open source web hosting CP tools (functioning with the cloud website hosting platform) either. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, in the first place you have to create one. In-house. Secondly, you have to develop the web hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based CPs

Contemporary web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are made to operate on one server solely. All website hosting services (data storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on one server where these particular single-server web hosting platforms and web hosting CPs are set up.

The lack of open source hosting Control Panels

So, you have to set up an in-house built web hosting CP that will work perfectly and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent component of it. Good examples of in-house built cloud web hosting platforms with custom created website hosting Control Panels besides us, at Host4Up Web Services, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision charges

The minimum investment wanted, just for the cloud hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between 60,000 USD and $80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS device, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud hosting systems can be found out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so blue... and virtually unclouded!