Cloud Web Hosting Defined

In general, the genuine cloud web hosting platform serves separate hosting services like disk storage, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on separate bunches of high-end web servers. Each specific service pack generates a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing apart from it. They will all perform as one single server, sharing out the service's load in practically equipollent proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there has to be: a disk space cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these independent service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The substantial cloud web hosting fraud. Very widespread now.

There is so much confusion circulating around about cloud hosting now. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only sound complicated, but actually it is intensely perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. Based on this widely spread ignorance, the "cloud web hosting companies" speculate fervently, just to secure the client and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a shame! An enormous disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting industry there are no principles whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The hosting industry niche has no such supervisory institution. This is why the website hosting retailers speculate and lie overtly (very directly, actually) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud hosting they in fact can provide.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting distributor has a cloud hosting platform at hand, which is very unbelievable, multiple servers have to be ensured. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that towards the end of this article. But before we do, let's see what the cloud complications are. So, it's very unbelievable for a cPanel hosting trader to keep the cloud hosting system at hand, for establishing one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified team are not a problem, loads of money has to be spent too. Piles of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a big predicament.

The shortage of open source cloud web hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting solutions. There aren't any open source web hosting CP user interfaces (functioning with the cloud web hosting system) either. Hence, to have a cloud web hosting platform at hand, first of all you have to fabricate one. In-house. Secondly, you must set up the Control Panel too.

One server-based website hosting CPs

Modern web hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are set up to operate on one web server only. All web hosting services (web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on one web server where these specific one-server website hosting systems and website hosting Control Panels are set up.

The shortage of open source hosting CPs

So, you must establish an in-house built website hosting Control Panel that will operate unproblematically and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inbuilt constituent of it. Appropriate instances of custom devised cloud web hosting solutions with custom devised web hosting CPs besides us, at Vitohosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware equipment prices

The minimal investment needed, just for the cloud web hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and $80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS tool, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud web hosting platforms can be discovered out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so azure... and almost cloudless!