Cloud Website Hosting Definition

Essentially, the actual cloud website hosting solution serves various web hosting services like disk space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, and so on, on different stacks of very powerful servers. Each separate service group generates a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the specific service and nothing aside from it. They will all function as one server, sharing the service's load in practically equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there must be: a disk storage cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these individual service clusters will form the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The big cloud web hosting scam. Very common at the moment.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only seem perplexing, but in reality it is excessively perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. Based on this common unawareness, the "cloud website hosting merchants" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the client and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a disgrace! A huge shame. This is because in the web hosting industry there are no tenets whatsoever. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such supervising institution. This is the reason why the web hosting suppliers speculate and tell lies openly (quite directly, actually) to their customers. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud hosting they in fact can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting corporation has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is very unbelievable, many web hosting servers have to be acquired. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that at the end of this article. First, let's explore what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel hosting corporation to have the cloud hosting platform at hand, in that developing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified staff are not a problem, loads of cash has to be spent as well. Stacks of cash. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous inconvenience.

The deficiency of open source cloud website hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting systems. There are no open source web hosting CP user interfaces (operating with the cloud web hosting system) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, in the first place you have to build one. In-house. In the second place, you must make the web hosting CP as well.

One server-based website hosting CPs

Contemporary website hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to operate on one single web server solely. All web hosting services (disk storage, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at one and the same time on one single server where these given one-server web hosting platforms and website hosting CPs are set up.

The deficiency of open source website hosting CPs

So, you have to construct a custom website hosting CP that will operate impeccably and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural part of it. Good examples of custom developed cloud web hosting systems with custom set up CPs besides us, at Baker Hosting(Rick's Not Here), are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision fees

The smallest investment needed, just for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another fifteen-twenty thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting solutions can be chanced on out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and practically unclouded!