Cloud Website Hosting Unmasked

In general, the authentic cloud website hosting solution serves various web hosting services such as disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on different sets of leading edge web servers. Each different service group constitutes a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the given service and nothing apart from it. They will all perform as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in nearly equal proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there would be: a data storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these individual service clusters will compose the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The huge cloud web hosting fraud. Very modern at present.

There is so much misunderstanding going around about cloud web hosting at the moment. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only sound perplexing, but actually it is highly perplexing. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. Based on this popular unawareness, the "cloud website hosting vendors" speculate fervently, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a shame! An enormous shame. This is because in the web hosting industry there are no bylaws whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such self-governing institution. This is the reason why the hosting distributors speculate and lie overtly (quite bluntly, actually) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's determine how much cloud hosting they actually can provide.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting providers

If a cPanel-based website hosting firm has a cloud web hosting system at hand, which is quite unbelievable, plenty of servers must be acquired. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this article. First, let's find out what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel web hosting distributor to have the cloud website hosting platform at hand, since inventing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a competent team are not an issue, lots of money has to be invested as well. Mountains of cash. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's a big obstacle.

The lack of open source cloud website hosting systems

There are no open source cloud hosting platforms. There aren't any open source web hosting Control Panel devices (running with the cloud web hosting solution) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, in the first place you must set up one. In-house. In the second place, you have to set up the website hosting Control Panel too.

One server-based website hosting CPs

Modern web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to perform on a single server only. All web hosting services (disk space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at the very same time on one single web server where these given single-server website hosting platforms and web hosting CPs are set up.

The shortage of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you must build an in-house built CP that will operate unproblematically and to accommodate it within the cloud system, as if it was an ingrained constituent of it. Good examples of in-house invented cloud web hosting systems with in-house set up web hosting CPs besides us, at VistaWebHost, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision fees

The minimum contribution required, only for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between $60,000 USD and 80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20,000 USD. 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 turquoise... and nearly unclouded!