What is Cloud Website Hosting?

Essentially, the real cloud hosting solution serves various hosting services like web space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on autonomous bunches of avant-garde web servers. Each single 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 run as one single server, sharing the service's load in almost equal proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there would be: a disk storage cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these separate service clusters will construct the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The colossal cloud web hosting fraud. Very common today.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud web hosting now. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but in fact it is supremely complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this widespread ignorance, the "cloud hosting vendors" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a shame! A vast disgrace. This is because in the web hosting business niche there are no statutes whatsoever. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such self-controlling organization. This is why the web hosting wholesalers speculate and tell lies overtly (very directly, in fact) to their customers. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's ascertain how much cloud hosting they actually can deliver.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting merchants

If a cPanel-based website hosting retailer has a cloud hosting system at hand, which is quite improbable, numerous servers must be acquired. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this article. First off, let's explore what the cloud complications are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel web hosting wholesaler to keep the cloud web hosting system at hand, as setting up one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient staff are not an issue, a lot of money must be spent as well. Piles of money. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast disadvantage.

The lack of open source cloud hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting environments. There are no open source website hosting Control Panel tools (working with the cloud hosting solution) as well. Hence, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, in the first place you have to develop one. In-house. Second of all, you must devise the website hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Famous website hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to operate on one single web server only. All hosting services (disk storage, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at one and the same time on one single web server where these particular single-server web hosting systems and website hosting CPs are installed.

The absence of open source web hosting CPs

So, you have to build a custom web hosting CP that will operate impeccably and to add it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible component of it. Proper examples of custom set up cloud website hosting systems with custom set up web hosting CPs besides us, at Hosting Africa, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment expenses

The smallest contribution needed, just for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between 60,000 dollars and $80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS device, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting systems can be found out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so azure... and practically unclouded!