What Indeed is Cloud Web Hosting?

In general, the actual cloud web hosting platform serves distinct hosting services like data storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, etc., on different stacks of cutting-edge servers. Each different service group generates a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the given service and nothing aside from it. They will all operate as one single server, sharing the service's load in practically equipollent proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there should be: a web space cluster, a mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these different service clusters will produce the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The great cloud web hosting swindle. Very modern these days.

There is so much misunderstanding going around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can perceive, cloud web hosting does not only sound perplexing, but actually it is extremely perplexing. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. On the basis of this widespread ignorance, the "cloud website hosting providers" speculate feverishly, just to secure the customer and his/her five bucks a month. What a disgrace! An immense shame. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting industry there are no decrees whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such regulatory body. That is the reason why the website hosting providers speculate and lie openly (very directly, in fact) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud hosting they in reality can distribute.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting traders

If a cPanel-based web hosting company has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is quite unlikely, lots of web servers have to be obtained. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this review. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel hosting merchant to keep the cloud website hosting system at hand, in that inventing one requires years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified personnel are not a problem, a lot of cash must be invested as well. Stacks of money. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense defect.

The deficiency of open source cloud web hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting systems. There are no open source web hosting CP user interfaces (running with the cloud website hosting platform) as well. So, to have a cloud web hosting solution at hand, in the first place you must establish one. In-house. Second of all, you must fabricate the hosting CP too.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Popular website hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are created to work on a single web server solely. All web hosting services (data storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the very same time on one web server where these specific single-server website hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are installed.

The shortage of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you have to establish a custom website hosting CP that will function unproblematically and to include it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible component of it. Good examples of custom built cloud hosting systems with custom manufactured hosting Control Panels besides us, at Sonny server Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision fees

The minimum contribution required, just for the cloud web hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between $60,000 USD and 80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS device, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud web hosting platforms can be detected out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost cloudless!