What Actually is Cloud Web Hosting?

In general, the actual cloud hosting platform serves separate website hosting services such as disk storage, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on individual sets of very powerful servers. Each different service group generates a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing beside it. They will all function as one web server, sharing the service's load in approximately identical proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there must be: a disk space cluster, an email cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these independent service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The mammoth cloud web hosting fraud. Quite widespread at present.

There is so much confusion revolving around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only sound perplexing, but in fact it is supremely perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. Based on this widely spread ignorance, the "cloud website hosting retailers" speculate fervently, just to secure the client and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a shame! A great disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting industry niche there are no enactments whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such supervisory organization. This is the reason why the web hosting merchandisers speculate and lie openly (very bluntly, actually) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud hosting they in fact can supply.

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

If a cPanel-based hosting vendor has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is very improbable, plenty of web hosting servers have to be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this story. First, let's examine what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel hosting merchandiser to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, since setting up one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified staff are not a problem, a lot of cash must be spent as well. Heaps of money. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense problem.

The shortage of open source cloud hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting solutions. There are no open source website hosting CP tools (functioning with the cloud website hosting platform) either. So, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, first of all you have to make one. In-house. Second of all, you have to develop the hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based hosting CPs

Modern website hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are built to function on one single server exclusively. All web hosting services (disk storage, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on one web server where these specific one-server website hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The lack of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you have to invent a custom website hosting Control Panel that will function unproblematically and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inbuilt component of it. Good examples of in-house set up cloud website hosting systems with custom set up hosting Control Panels besides us, at WideMarsh.com, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision rates

The minimal contribution demanded, just for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud hosting systems can be found out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so turquoise... and virtually unclouded!