What Actually is Cloud Website Hosting?

Actually, the real cloud hosting solution serves various hosting services like web space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, Control Panel, backup, etc., on separate stacks of high-end servers. Each particular service group produces a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the given service and nothing beside it. They will all run as one single server, sharing the service's load in approximately equipollent proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there should be: a storage space 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 autonomous service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The great cloud website hosting scam. Quite common at present.

There is so much speculation circulating around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only sound perplexing, but actually it is supremely complicated. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. Based on this universal unawareness, the "cloud hosting providers" speculate fervently, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a disgrace! A huge disgrace. This is because in the website hosting industry there are no regulations whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such regulative body. This is why the web hosting distributors speculate and lie openly (very directly, in fact) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's learn how much cloud web hosting they indeed can offer.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting merchandiser has a cloud web hosting system at hand, which is quite unbelievable, numerous web servers have to be acquired. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that towards the end of this review. First, let's find out what the cloud problems are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel web hosting distributor to keep the cloud web hosting system at hand, since making one requires years. Even when time and the provision of professional personnel are not a problem, a lot of money has to be spent too. Tons of money. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast downside.

The deficiency of open source cloud hosting systems

There are no open source cloud web hosting environments. There aren't any open source web hosting Control Panel tools (working with the cloud web hosting system) either. So, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, first of all you must build one. In-house. Second of all, you have to establish the web hosting CP as well.

Single server-based web hosting CPs

Popular web hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to perform on a single web server solely. All website hosting services (disk space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at one and the same time on one single server where these specific single-server web hosting systems and web hosting CPs are installed.

The shortage of open source hosting Control Panels

So, you must set up an in-house built website hosting CP that will run unproblematically and to integrate it within the cloud system, as if it was an inbuilt part of it. Good instances of custom constructed cloud website hosting solutions with in-house developed web hosting CPs besides us, at Connektiva Web Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment expenses

The minimal contribution needed, just for the cloud hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS device, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud hosting solutions can be found out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and virtually cloudless!