What Does Cloud Hosting Mean?

In general, the genuine cloud hosting solution serves various website hosting services such as web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on separate hosts of cutting-edge web servers. Each single service pack generates a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the given service and nothing beside it. They will all perform as one web server, sharing the service's load in approximately equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there has to be: a disk storage cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP 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 separate service clusters will generate the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The great cloud hosting deceit. Very popular at the moment.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud hosting now. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but in fact it is highly perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. Based on this widespread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting firms" speculate eagerly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five dollars a month. What a shame! A great disgrace. This is because in the web hosting business niche there are no norms whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such supervising organization. That is why the hosting companies speculate and tell lies overtly (very directly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud hosting they indeed can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting corporation has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is very improbable, multiple hosting servers must be acquired. 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 predicaments are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting firm to keep the cloud web hosting platform at hand, since constructing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a professional staff are not an issue, loads of cash must be invested as well. Tons of money. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a great obstacle.

The lack of open source cloud hosting environments

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting environments. There aren't any open source web hosting CP interfaces (running with the cloud website hosting solution) either. Hence, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, first you have to devise one. In-house. In the second place, you have to establish the web hosting Control Panel too.

One server-based website hosting Control Panels

Popular web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are built to function on one single web server exclusively. All web hosting services (disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on one single server where these respective one-server website hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The deficiency of open source website hosting CPs

So, you have to build an in-house built website hosting Control Panel that will perform impeccably and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained constituent of it. Proper examples of in-house created cloud hosting solutions with custom invented website hosting Control Panels besides us, at WebDomain.Tech, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision fees

The minimal contribution required, only for the cloud hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS tool, which is another $15-20,000. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting solutions can be found out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and practically cloudless!