Cloud Hosting Definition

Essentially, the authentic cloud website hosting solution serves distinct web hosting services such as disk storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on individual groups of avant-garde web servers. Each different service group constitutes a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing aside from it. They will all function as one single server, sharing out the service's load in almost the same proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there should be: a storage space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these autonomous service clusters will compose the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The big cloud website hosting trick. Quite modern today.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud web hosting now. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only sound perplexing, but in fact it is supremely perplexing. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting retailers" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the client and his/her five bucks per month. What a shame! A huge disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no norms whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such supervisory organization. This is the reason why the website hosting wholesalers speculate and lie overtly (quite directly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's discover how much cloud web hosting they in reality can provide.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" hosting distributors

If a cPanel-based hosting company has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is quite unbelievable, loads of web hosting servers have to be obtained. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that at the end of this article. But before we do, let's find out what the cloud problems are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel hosting retailer to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, as creating one requires years. Even when time and the provision of proficient personnel are not a predicament, a lot of cash must be invested too. Mountains of money. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's a big obstacle.

The shortage of open source cloud website hosting systems

There are no open source cloud website hosting platforms. There are no open source website hosting Control Panel interfaces (operating with the cloud website hosting system) either. Hence, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, in the first place you must make one. In-house. In the second place, you have to construct the website hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Contemporary web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are devised to operate on one single server only. All web hosting services (disk space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on one single server where these respective single-server website hosting platforms and website hosting CPs are installed.

The shortage of open source web hosting CPs

So, you have to set up an in-house built hosting Control Panel that will operate perfectly and to integrate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible component of it. Good instances of custom created cloud website hosting systems with in-house built CPs besides us, at siteria, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment rates

The minimal contribution wanted, only for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, equals somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and $80,000. That's excluding the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting solutions can be encountered out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and almost unclouded!