What Precisely is Cloud Website Hosting?

Essentially, the real cloud hosting platform serves various hosting services such as disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, etc., on individual hosts of avant-garde web servers. Each particular service set makes a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the specific service and nothing aside from it. They will all perform as one single web server, sharing the service's load in practically identical proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there should be: a data storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these separate service clusters will create the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The colossal cloud website hosting trick. Quite popular nowadays.

There is so much speculation revolving around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only sound complicated, but in fact it is highly complicated. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this popular unawareness, the "cloud web hosting providers" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the client and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a disgrace! An immense shame. This is due to the fact that in the website hosting business niche there are no bylaws whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such administrative body. This is the reason why the web hosting suppliers speculate and lie openly (quite bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud web hosting they actually can provide.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting company has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is quite unbelievable, a lot of hosting servers have to be paid for. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this review. First off, let's explore what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel web hosting distributor to keep the cloud web hosting platform at hand, because of the fact that devising one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified staff are not a predicament, a lot of cash must be invested as well. Piles of cash. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a big downside.

The lack of open source cloud hosting environments

There are no open source cloud web hosting solutions. There aren't any open source web hosting Control Panel GUIs (operating with the cloud hosting solution) either. So, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, first you have to construct one. In-house. Secondly, you have to establish the web hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based web hosting Control Panels

Modern CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are built to function on one single web server only. All web hosting services (storage space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the very same time on a single server where these respective one-server website hosting platforms and web hosting CPs are installed.

The shortage of open source website hosting CPs

So, you must fabricate a custom web hosting Control Panel that will run unproblematically and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained component of it. Suitable instances of custom built cloud web hosting solutions with in-house created website hosting Control Panels besides us, at DNSVOX, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment fees

The minimal investment required, just for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another fifteen-twenty thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud hosting solutions can be detected out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and virtually cloudless!