Cloud Hosting Definition

In general, the authentic cloud website hosting solution serves separate website hosting services like disk space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, hosting CP, backup, and so on, on individual groups of very powerful web servers. Each specific service group generates a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the given service and nothing aside from it. They will all work as one web server, sharing the service's load in almost the same proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there would be: a storage space cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these individual service clusters will compose the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The substantial cloud hosting swindle. Quite common today.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only appear complicated, but actually it is greatly perplexing. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this popular unawareness, the "cloud web hosting merchandisers" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a shame! A big shame. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no bylaws whatsoever. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The hosting industry has no such self-regulative institution. This is the reason why the web hosting merchants speculate and lie overtly (very directly, in fact) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's determine how much cloud hosting they indeed can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting wholesaler has a cloud hosting platform at hand, which is very improbable, numerous hosting servers must be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this article. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud problems are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel hosting retailer to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, for creating one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a competent team are not an issue, lots of cash must be spent as well. Piles of cash. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a big disadvantage.

The absence of open source cloud website hosting systems

There are no open source cloud web hosting environments. There are no open source web hosting CP tools (functioning with the cloud website hosting system) either. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, first of all you have to create one. In-house. In the second place, you must construct the website hosting CP too.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Today's popular website hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are made to run on one server exclusively. All web hosting services (data storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served simultaneously on one server where these respective one-server web hosting platforms and website hosting CPs are set up.

The deficiency of open source Control Panels

So, you must construct an in-house built website hosting CP that will function impeccably and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible component of it. Proper examples of in-house developed cloud web hosting platforms with in-house manufactured web hosting CPs besides us, at Panther Computers, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment charges

The minimal contribution wanted, only for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between $60,000 and eighty thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS device, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you do know how many cloud website hosting solutions can be encountered out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and virtually cloudless!