What is Cloud Website Hosting?

In general, the authentic cloud hosting platform serves distinct hosting services such as disk storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, Control Panel, backup, etc., on different hosts of avant-garde web servers. Each individual service group forms a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the particular service and nothing else. They will all perform as one server, sharing out the service's load in nearly identical proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there must be: a data storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these separate service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The great cloud web hosting hoax. Quite popular nowadays.

There is so much confusion revolving around about cloud web hosting these days. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but in reality it is intensely perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this universal ignorance, the "cloud web hosting merchandisers" speculate fiercely, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a disgrace! A great disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting business there are no rules at all. The domain name industry has ICANN. The hosting industry niche has no such supervising institution. That is why the website hosting traders speculate and tell lies openly (very bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud hosting they actually can distribute.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting firm has a cloud hosting system at hand, which is quite improbable, plenty of hosting servers have to be paid for. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this story. First off, let's examine what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel hosting wholesaler to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, as inventing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of competent personnel are not an issue, lots of cash has to be spent too. Piles of cash. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous obstacle.

The absence of open source cloud hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud web hosting environments. There are no open source website hosting Control Panel GUIs (running with the cloud web hosting system) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, first of all you must develop one. In-house. Second of all, you have to set up the web hosting CP as well.

Single server-based web hosting Control Panels

Modern web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are invented to work on one web server solely. All website hosting services (disk storage, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served concurrently on one web server where these particular single-server website hosting platforms and hosting Control Panels are installed.

The deficiency of open source web hosting CPs

So, you must create an in-house built web hosting CP that will work uncomplicatedly and to integrate it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural part of it. Good examples of in-house devised cloud hosting platforms with custom built CPs besides us, at Sharplogics, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment fees

The minimal contribution required, just for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, equals somewhere between $60,000 USD and eighty thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS tool, which is another $15-20,000. Now you realize how many cloud hosting platforms can be detected out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so blue... and practically unclouded!