Cloud Website Hosting Defined

In general, the real cloud website hosting platform serves various hosting services like disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on individual groups of cutting-edge servers. Each separate service set generates a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the specific service and nothing apart from it. They will all operate as one single server, sharing out the service's load in nearly the same proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there would be: a web space cluster, an electronic 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 make the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The enormous cloud web hosting scam. Very widespread now.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud hosting at present. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only seem complicated, but actually it is supremely complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. Based on this popular ignorance, the "cloud web hosting distributors" speculate strongly, just to secure the client and his/her five bucks per month. What a disgrace! A great shame. This is because in the web hosting business niche there are no principles whatsoever. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such regulative organization. That is the reason why the web hosting merchants speculate and lie blatantly (very directly, actually) to their customers. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's ascertain how much cloud hosting they actually can offer.

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

If a cPanel-based hosting trader has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is quite unlikely, plenty of servers must be paid for. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that towards the end of this review. First, let's explore what the cloud troubles are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel web hosting firm to have the cloud website hosting platform at hand, owing to the fact that setting up one takes years. Even when time and the provision of experienced personnel are not a problem, plenty of money must be invested too. Tons of money. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous disadvantage.

The shortage of open source cloud website hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting solutions. There are no open source web hosting CP user interfaces (functioning with the cloud website hosting system) either. So, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, first you must construct one. In-house. In the second place, you must fabricate the website hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based web hosting Control Panels

Popular web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are created to run on one web server exclusively. All web hosting services (disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at the same time on one web server where these respective single-server web hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The lack of open source web hosting CPs

So, you have to fabricate a custom website hosting CP that will work impeccably and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural constituent of it. Good instances of custom built cloud website hosting systems with custom devised web hosting CPs besides us, at World Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment prices

The minimum investment wanted, only for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between $60,000 USD and 80,000 dollars. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting solutions can be detected out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost unclouded!