What Exactly is Cloud Hosting?

Essentially, the authentic cloud web hosting solution serves distinct website hosting services such as disk space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, CP, backup, and so on, on individual packs of top-quality web servers. Each particular service set creates a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the given service and nothing aside from it. They will all run as one single server, sharing the service's load in almost identical proportions. If there is a genuine cloud web hosting service, there must be: a storage space cluster, an email 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, and so on. All these different service clusters will create the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The huge cloud web hosting fraud. Quite modern at present.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud hosting now. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only sound perplexing, but in reality it is supremely perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. On the wings of this widespread ignorance, the "cloud website hosting merchandisers" speculate strongly, just to secure the client and his/her five bucks per month. What a shame! A vast shame. This is because in the web hosting industry niche there are no bylaws at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such administrative organization. That is why the web hosting merchandisers speculate and tell lies overtly (quite directly, actually) to their clients. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud web hosting they in fact can distribute.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting vendor has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is very unlikely, lots of hosting servers must be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this story. First, let's examine what the cloud problems are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel web hosting trader to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, owing to the fact that constructing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a professional team are not a problem, a lot of money must be spent too. Tons of cash. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a great inconvenience.

The shortage of open source cloud web hosting systems

There are no open source cloud hosting platforms. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel instruments (operating with the cloud hosting solution) as well. Hence, to have a cloud web hosting solution at hand, first of all you have to establish one. In-house. Second of all, you have to make the website hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based website hosting CPs

Popular web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are set up to operate on one server exclusively. All web hosting services (data storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on a single web server where these given single-server web hosting systems and website hosting CPs are installed.

The lack of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you must make an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will perform faultlessly and to accommodate it within the cloud system, as if it was an inbuilt part of it. Suitable examples of in-house devised cloud website hosting solutions with custom made web hosting CPs besides us, at David Jones Design Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision prices

The minimum investment needed, only for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud web hosting platforms can be detected out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so azure... and practically cloudless!