What Does Cloud Hosting Denote?

Essentially, the authentic cloud hosting platform serves individual hosting services such as disk storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting CP, backup, etc., on individual bunches of high-end servers. Each specific service set constitutes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the specific service and nothing apart from it. They will all function as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in nearly equipollent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there would be: a disk storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these independent service clusters will form the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The enormous cloud web hosting deceit. Very widespread today.

There is so much confusion revolving around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but in reality it is extremely perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud website hosting companies" speculate intensely, just to secure the client and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a shame! A huge shame. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting industry there are no decrees whatsoever. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such legislative organization. This is why the hosting merchants speculate and lie openly (very bluntly, actually) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's learn how much cloud hosting they in fact can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting wholesaler has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very improbable, plenty of hosting servers have to be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this review. First, let's explore what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel hosting distributor to keep the cloud hosting system at hand, owing to the fact that constructing one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified staff are not an issue, lots of cash must be invested too. Heaps of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous inconvenience.

The deficiency of open source cloud hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting environments. There aren't any open source website hosting Control Panel devices (working with the cloud hosting platform) either. So, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, first of all you have to invent one. In-house. Secondly, you must make the web hosting CP too.

Single server-based hosting Control Panels

Today's popular web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are manufactured to function on one single server only. All website hosting services (disk storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on one single web server where these given one-server website hosting platforms and website hosting Control Panels are set up.

The deficiency of open source Control Panels

So, you must develop a custom Control Panel that will function impeccably and to integrate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inbuilt constituent of it. Proper instances of in-house built cloud web hosting systems with custom constructed web hosting CPs besides us, at VirtualNIX, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision costs

The smallest contribution required, only for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between $60,000 USD and $80,000. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud hosting platforms can be stumbled upon out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost cloudless!