What Actually is Cloud Hosting?

Essentially, the real cloud web hosting platform serves separate hosting services like web space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on autonomous packs of cutting-edge servers. Each single service set forms a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all operate as one web server, sharing out the service's load in nearly the same proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there must be: a disk storage cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these autonomous service clusters will create the so-called cloud hosting system.

The mammoth cloud web hosting scam. Quite modern at the moment.

There is so much speculation revolving around about cloud hosting at the moment. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only sound complicated, but in reality it is intensely complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud web hosting is. On the basis of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting merchandisers" speculate fiercely, just to secure the client and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a disgrace! A big disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no norms whatsoever. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such regulatory institution. This is the reason why the hosting merchandisers speculate and tell lies openly (very bluntly, actually) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's determine how much cloud hosting they indeed can provide.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting companies

If a cPanel-based web hosting company has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is quite unbelievable, a lot of servers must be ensured. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this article. First, let's find out what the cloud problems are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting distributor to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, since creating one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient staff are not a problem, plenty of cash has to be spent as well. Piles of cash. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast problem.

The shortage of open source cloud web hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud web hosting systems. There aren't any open source Control Panel instruments (operating with the cloud web hosting solution) as well. So, to have a cloud web hosting solution at hand, first of all you have to fabricate one. In-house. Secondly, you must establish the CP too.

Single server-based hosting CPs

Today's popular hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are made to perform on one single server only. All web hosting services (web space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served concurrently on a single server where these given one-server web hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are installed.

The shortage of open source CPs

So, you have to make an in-house built website hosting CP that will function perfectly and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained constituent of it. Suitable instances of custom built cloud hosting platforms with in-house invented Control Panels besides us, at Niaguis Web Solutions, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision costs

The smallest contribution wanted, only for the cloud web hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 dollars and 80,000 dollars. That's omitting the DDoS appliance, which is another fifteen-twenty thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud web hosting systems can be found out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so blue... and virtually cloudless!