Cloud Hosting Definition

In general, the actual cloud hosting platform serves various website hosting services such as storage space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on autonomous bunches of leading edge servers. Each specific service group makes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the given service and nothing apart from it. They will all work as one web server, sharing the service's load in almost equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there should be: a web space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol 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 form the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The immense cloud web hosting fraud. Quite popular nowadays.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud hosting these days. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but in fact it is excessively complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this widely spread ignorance, the "cloud hosting distributors" speculate intensely, just to secure the client and his/her five dollars per month. What a disgrace! A big disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting business there are no ordinances at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such supervisory organization. That is why the web hosting companies speculate and lie overtly (very bluntly, actually) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud web hosting they in fact can provide.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" hosting suppliers

If a cPanel-based website hosting corporation has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is quite unlikely, multiple servers have to be obtained. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that at the end of this article. First off, let's find out what the cloud complications are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel web hosting corporation to keep the cloud web hosting system at hand, owing to the fact that inventing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified personnel are not a problem, a lot of money has to be spent as well. Heaps of money. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous problem.

The shortage of open source cloud hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud hosting environments. There are no open source Control Panel GUIs (functioning with the cloud web hosting solution) either. So, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, in the first place you must create one. In-house. Secondly, you have to make the web hosting CP as well.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Modern website hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are set up to work on a single server only. All hosting services (disk storage, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at the very same time on one single server where these given one-server hosting platforms and hosting Control Panels are set up.

The absence of open source hosting Control Panels

So, you have to fabricate an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will function faultlessly and to integrate it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible part of it. Appropriate examples of in-house manufactured cloud website hosting systems with custom devised hosting Control Panels besides us, at Get-Host.com, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment expenses

The minimal investment demanded, just for the cloud hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud hosting solutions can be found out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and almost cloudless!