What Exactly is Cloud Hosting?

Essentially, the genuine cloud web hosting platform serves individual hosting services such as storage space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on individual packs of top-quality web servers. Each particular service set constitutes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the particular service and nothing aside from it. They will all work as one single web server, sharing the service's load in practically equipollent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud web hosting service, there has to be: a web space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these separate service clusters will create the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The immense cloud web hosting fraud. Quite modern these days.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud hosting today. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only appear complicated, but actually it is greatly perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud web hosting is. On the wings of this widely spread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting distributors" speculate fiercely, just to secure the customer and his/her five dollars a month. What a disgrace! An immense shame. This is because in the web hosting business niche there are no principles at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such self-governing organization. That is why the web hosting vendors speculate and lie overtly (very directly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Notably the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud web hosting they actually can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting vendor has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is quite improbable, multiple web hosting servers must be bought. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that towards the end of this story. First, let's examine what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel web hosting vendor to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, owing to the fact that inventing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified team are not a problem, a lot of money must be invested as well. Piles of money. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous disadvantage.

The lack of open source cloud web hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting systems. There aren't any open source website hosting CP interfaces (working with the cloud web hosting platform) either. Therefore, to have a cloud web hosting solution at hand, first you have to fabricate one. In-house. Secondly, you have to develop the website hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based Control Panels

Popular web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are made to run on one web server only. All website hosting services (disk storage, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at one and the same time on one web server where these particular single-server website hosting systems and website hosting Control Panels are set up.

The absence of open source web hosting CPs

So, you have to set up an in-house built CP that will perform perfectly and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent component of it. Suitable instances of in-house made cloud web hosting solutions with in-house set up web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Aim Media Networks LLC, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware equipment prices

The minimal investment required, just for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS mechanism, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud web hosting platforms can be chanced on out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and practically cloudless!