Cloud Website Hosting Definition

Essentially, the actual cloud website hosting platform serves individual web hosting services like data storage, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on independent packs of top-notch servers. Each different service set makes a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing apart from it. They will all function as one single web server, sharing the service's load in practically equivalent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a web space cluster, an email cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these different service clusters will compose the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The gigantic cloud website hosting trick. Quite common now.

There is so much speculation circulating around about cloud hosting nowadays. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only sound complicated, but in reality it is highly perplexing. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. Based on this common ignorance, the "cloud hosting suppliers" speculate eagerly, just to secure the client and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a disgrace! An enormous disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the hosting business niche there are no statutes at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such supervising body. That is the reason why the web hosting corporations speculate and lie overtly (quite directly, actually) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud web hosting they indeed can distribute.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting merchandiser has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very improbable, many servers must be ensured. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that towards the end of this story. First, let's find out what the cloud problems are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel web hosting retailer to keep the cloud web hosting system at hand, for constructing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of an experienced team are not a problem, lots of money has to be invested as well. Heaps of cash. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's a great predicament.

The shortage of open source cloud website hosting environments

There are no open source cloud website hosting environments. There are no open source website hosting CP instruments (working with the cloud website hosting system) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, in the first place you must create one. In-house. Second of all, you must establish the CP as well.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Modern web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are set up to perform on one single server only. All web hosting services (disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served simultaneously on one single web server where these specific one-server web hosting platforms and hosting CPs are installed.

The absence of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to set up an in-house built website hosting Control Panel that will operate impeccably and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained component of it. Appropriate examples of in-house developed cloud web hosting systems with in-house invented web hosting CPs besides us, at I-Solutions Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment costs

The minimal investment demanded, only for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between $60,000 and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud website hosting systems can be stumbled upon out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so blue... and virtually unclouded!