Definition of Cloud Hosting

Essentially, the real cloud hosting solution serves various hosting services like disk space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, and so on, on individual hosts of high-end servers. Each particular service set creates a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the particular service and nothing apart from it. They will all perform as one web server, sharing the service's load in approximately equivalent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there must be: a web space cluster, a mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these separate service clusters will generate the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The substantial cloud web hosting scam. Quite popular at the moment.

There is so much misunderstanding revolving around about cloud hosting today. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only seem complicated, but in reality it is excessively perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. Based on this popular unawareness, the "cloud website hosting merchandisers" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the client and his/her five bucks per month. What a disgrace! A vast disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting business niche there are no principles whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such administrative body. That is why the web hosting distributors speculate and lie overtly (very directly, actually) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's determine how much cloud hosting they actually can supply.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting trader has a cloud web hosting system at hand, which is quite unlikely, loads of web hosting servers have to be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this article. First, let's explore what the cloud problems are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel hosting company to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, since building one demands years. Even when time and the provision of competent personnel are not a problem, loads of money has to be spent as well. Mountains of cash. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous drawback.

The shortage of open source cloud hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud web hosting systems. There are no open source web hosting CP devices (functioning with the cloud web hosting system) either. So, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, in the first place you have to construct one. In-house. In the second place, you must invent the Control Panel too.

Single server-based web hosting Control Panels

Contemporary web hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are devised to function on a single web server exclusively. All web hosting services (web space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at one and the same time on one single server where these respective single-server web hosting platforms and hosting Control Panels are installed.

The deficiency of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to set up an in-house built Control Panel that will function faultlessly and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent component of it. Suitable instances of in-house invented cloud hosting solutions with in-house developed Control Panels besides us, at WebLakay, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment expenses

The smallest contribution demanded, just for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between $60,000 and 80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting platforms can be stumbled upon out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost unclouded!