Cloud Web Hosting Defined

Essentially, the real cloud hosting platform serves distinct website hosting services like disk storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on autonomous groups of top-quality web servers. Each individual service group forms a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the given service and nothing else. They will all perform as one web server, sharing out the service's load in approximately equivalent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there should be: a storage space cluster, an email cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these individual service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The massive cloud web hosting fraud. Quite popular nowadays.

There is so much confusion revolving around about cloud web hosting today. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but in fact it is extremely complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. Based on this universal unawareness, the "cloud website hosting merchants" speculate fiercely, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a shame! A vast shame. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting industry there are no statutes at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such self-controlling institution. This is why the web hosting vendors speculate and tell lies blatantly (very bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's learn how much cloud hosting they indeed can provide.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting companies

If a cPanel-based website hosting supplier has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is very improbable, lots of servers must be obtained. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that towards the end of this article. But before we do, let's see what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel web hosting corporation to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, in that creating one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a professional staff are not an issue, plenty of cash has to be invested too. Piles of cash. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's a huge disadvantage.

The absence of open source cloud hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting platforms. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel GUIs (running with the cloud hosting solution) either. Hence, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, first you must develop one. In-house. In the second place, you have to devise the web hosting Control Panel too.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Today's popular website hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are created to run on one web server only. All web hosting services (disk space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on one single web server where these particular single-server web hosting platforms and Control Panels are set up.

The shortage of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you must set up a custom hosting CP that will perform faultlessly and to incorporate it within the cloud system, as if it was an inbuilt constituent of it. Good instances of custom built cloud web hosting systems with in-house made hosting Control Panels besides us, at Eagleprohost.com, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision expenses

The minimal contribution wanted, only for the cloud hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between $60,000 USD and $80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another $15-20,000. Now you do know how many cloud hosting platforms can be detected out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so azure... and virtually unclouded!