Description of Cloud Hosting

In general, the authentic cloud hosting platform serves separate website hosting services like disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on individual bunches of very advanced web servers. Each different service set constitutes a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the particular service and nothing apart from it. They will all operate as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in nearly the same proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there should be: a disk space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these separate service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The great cloud website hosting hoax. Very popular now.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud hosting these days. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only appear perplexing, but in fact it is supremely complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud hosting providers" speculate fiercely, just to secure the client and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a disgrace! An enormous shame. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting industry there are no principles whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The hosting industry has no such supervising organization. That is the reason why the web hosting merchants speculate and lie overtly (quite directly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud hosting they actually can deliver.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting merchants

If a cPanel-based website hosting company has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is very improbable, multiple servers have to be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this story. But before we do, let's find out what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel web hosting supplier to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, owing to the fact that devising one takes years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified personnel are not a problem, plenty of money must be invested as well. Stacks of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a great downside.

The lack of open source cloud hosting platforms

There are no open source cloud hosting environments. There aren't any open source web hosting Control Panel devices (functioning with the cloud website hosting solution) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, in the first place you must construct one. In-house. In the second place, you have to invent the web hosting CP too.

Single server-based web hosting CPs

Famous website hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are constructed to work on one server solely. All website hosting services (storage space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, CP, backup, and so on) are being served simultaneously on a single web server where these given one-server web hosting platforms and Control Panels are installed.

The shortage of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you must develop an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will perform flawlessly and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural constituent of it. Good examples of in-house constructed cloud web hosting solutions with in-house devised website hosting Control Panels besides us, at Libertywebhost, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision charges

The smallest contribution required, just for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS device, which is another $15-20,000. Now you realize how many cloud hosting platforms can be detected out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and practically cloudless!