Cloud Web Hosting Definition

Actually, the genuine cloud hosting solution serves separate hosting services like disk storage, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, etc., on independent packs of cutting-edge web servers. Each different service pack forms a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the particular service and nothing apart from it. They will all run as one single server, sharing out the service's load in nearly equal proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there would be: a storage space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these autonomous service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The enormous cloud website hosting hoax. Very common nowadays.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only appear perplexing, but actually it is supremely complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this common ignorance, the "cloud web hosting wholesalers" speculate strongly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a disgrace! A big shame. This is because in the web hosting business niche there are no enactments at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such supervisory institution. That is the reason why the web hosting suppliers speculate and lie blatantly (quite bluntly, actually) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud hosting they in fact can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting distributor has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is quite unlikely, numerous servers must be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this review. First off, let's examine what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel hosting retailer to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, because of the fact that building one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient staff are not a problem, plenty of money must be spent too. Heaps of money. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous disadvantage.

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 GUIs (working with the cloud website hosting platform) either. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, in the first place you must establish one. In-house. In the second place, you have to make the Control Panel too.

Single server-based hosting Control Panels

Famous web hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are made to function on one server exclusively. All website hosting services (data storage, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the very same time on a single server where these respective single-server web hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The deficiency of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to develop a custom Control Panel that will run unproblematically and to integrate it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible constituent of it. Suitable examples of custom constructed cloud website hosting solutions with in-house invented web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Your Personal Server, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision fares

The minimal investment demanded, just for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80 thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS apparatus, which is another fifteen-twenty thousand dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting solutions can be encountered out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and almost unclouded!