Cloud Hosting Definition

In general, the genuine cloud hosting platform serves various hosting services such as web space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on independent bunches of very powerful 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 beside it. They will all function as one web server, sharing out the service's load in practically equal proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there should be: a disk space cluster, a mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these individual service clusters will compose the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The enormous cloud web hosting scam. Very common at the moment.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud hosting now. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but in fact it is highly perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this widespread ignorance, the "cloud web hosting merchandisers" speculate strongly, just to secure the client and his/her five dollars a month. What a shame! A big disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no principles whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such regulatory organization. That is why the web hosting wholesalers speculate and lie overtly (very bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud hosting they indeed can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based hosting trader has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is quite unlikely, numerous servers must be acquired. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that at the end of this story. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting supplier to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, in that creating one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified staff are not an issue, plenty of cash has to be invested as well. Mountains of cash. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense defect.

The deficiency of open source cloud hosting environments

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting systems. There aren't any open source web hosting Control Panel user interfaces (running with the cloud website hosting platform) either. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, first you must create one. In-house. In the second place, you have to construct the web hosting CP as well.

Single server-based website hosting CPs

Contemporary website hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to perform on one server only. All website hosting services (storage space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on one single server where these given single-server web hosting platforms and web hosting CPs are set up.

The shortage of open source web hosting CPs

So, you have to invent a custom web hosting Control Panel that will run perfectly and to accommodate it within the cloud system, as if it was an inbuilt part of it. Good instances of in-house made cloud website hosting solutions with custom devised website hosting CPs besides us, at Hesse Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment costs

The smallest investment demanded, only for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, equals somewhere between 60,000 dollars and $80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS device, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you do know how many cloud hosting solutions can be encountered out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and almost unclouded!