What Precisely is Cloud Web Hosting?

Essentially, the authentic cloud website hosting solution serves distinct website hosting services such as web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on autonomous bunches of deluxe web servers. Each single service group makes a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the specific service and nothing beside it. They will all run as one web server, sharing out the service's load in nearly equal proportions. If there is a genuine cloud website hosting service, there would be: a disk space cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these individual service clusters will produce the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The great cloud hosting scam. Quite common at the moment.

There is so much confusion circulating around about cloud web hosting today. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only appear perplexing, but in fact it is intensely perplexing. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. Based on this widespread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting firms" speculate strongly, just to secure the customer and his/her five bucks per month. What a shame! A huge shame. This is due to the fact that in the website hosting industry niche there are no laws whatsoever. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such legislative organization. That is the reason why the hosting suppliers speculate and lie blatantly (very directly, actually) to their clients. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's ascertain how much cloud hosting they in fact can distribute.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting company has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is very unbelievable, a lot of servers must be acquired. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this story. First, let's see what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting vendor to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, because of the fact that setting up one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient staff are not an issue, lots of cash must be spent too. Piles of money. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous disadvantage.

The absence of open source cloud website hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud web hosting solutions. There are no open source hosting Control Panel tools (operating with the cloud web hosting solution) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, first you must set up one. In-house. Second of all, you must make the website hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based website hosting CPs

Contemporary web hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to work on one single web server solely. All web hosting services (data storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on one server where these particular single-server web hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are installed.

The shortage of open source website hosting CPs

So, you must create an in-house built CP that will work perfectly and to integrate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent constituent of it. Good instances of in-house devised cloud web hosting systems with custom set up web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Host Magi, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment fees

The minimal contribution demanded, just for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between $60,000 and eighty thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another fifteen-twenty thousand dollars. Now you do know how many cloud website hosting systems can be encountered out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and virtually unclouded!