Cloud Web Hosting Definition

Actually, the genuine cloud hosting platform serves separate web hosting services such as disk storage, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on autonomous packs of avant-garde servers. Each single service pack forms a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the specific service and nothing aside from it. They will all work as one single web server, sharing the service's load in practically equivalent proportions. If there is an authentic cloud hosting service, there would be: a disk storage cluster, a 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 different service clusters will construct the so-called cloud hosting platform.

The mammoth cloud web hosting scam. Very common now.

There is so much speculation revolving around about cloud web hosting these days. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only sound complicated, but in fact it is excessively perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this common unawareness, the "cloud website hosting retailers" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a shame! A huge disgrace. This is because in the web hosting industry there are no bylaws whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such administrative body. That is why the web hosting distributors speculate and lie overtly (quite bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud web hosting they indeed can distribute.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting merchant has a cloud hosting platform at hand, which is very unbelievable, loads of hosting servers have to be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this story. First off, let's explore what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel hosting distributor to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, owing to the fact that making one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a competent team are not a predicament, lots of cash has to be spent as well. Piles of money. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous predicament.

The lack of open source cloud hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting platforms. There are no open source hosting CP GUIs (working with the cloud website hosting solution) as well. So, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, in the first place you must establish one. In-house. In the second place, you have to create the Control Panel as well.

One server-based Control Panels

Famous website hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are created to run on one single server only. All website hosting services (disk space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on one single server where these specific single-server web hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The absence of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to invent a custom CP that will work perfectly and to integrate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent part of it. Suitable instances of custom created cloud web hosting solutions with in-house devised web hosting Control Panels besides us, at WebLakay, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision fares

The minimum investment needed, only for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between 60,000 USD and $80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS device, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting platforms can be detected out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost cloudless!