Cloud Website Hosting Definition
Essentially, the authentic cloud hosting platform serves various web hosting services like data storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on independent bunches of top-quality servers. Each different service pack constitutes a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the particular service and nothing apart from it. They will all operate as one single server, sharing the service's load in almost the same proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there must be: a disk storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a website hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these different service clusters will produce the so-called cloud web hosting system.
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The mammoth cloud web hosting swindle. Very common now.
There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud hosting at the moment. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only seem complicated, but in reality it is extremely complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. Based on this widespread unawareness, the "cloud website hosting distributors" speculate feverishly, just to secure the client and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a disgrace! A great shame. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting business niche there are no decrees at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such self-governing institution. That is the reason why the web hosting suppliers speculate and lie blatantly (very bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's learn how much cloud hosting they indeed can deliver.
The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting merchandisers
If a cPanel-based website hosting merchant has a cloud hosting system at hand, which is very improbable, multiple web hosting servers have to be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this story. First off, let's find out what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel hosting retailer to keep the cloud web hosting system at hand, because of the fact that devising one demands years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified personnel are not a predicament, lots of money has to be invested as well. Tons of money. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast downside.
The shortage of open source cloud hosting platforms
There aren't any open source cloud web hosting environments. There aren't any open source website hosting Control Panel user interfaces (functioning with the cloud website hosting solution) either. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, first you must establish one. In-house. Secondly, you have to invent the website hosting Control Panel as well.
Single server-based website hosting Control Panels
Popular web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are built to perform on one web server exclusively. All website hosting services (disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on one web server where these respective one-server web hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are installed.
The shortage of open source web hosting CPs
So, you must set up a custom web hosting Control Panel that will function unproblematically and to incorporate it within the cloud system, as if it was an inbuilt component of it. Proper examples of custom invented cloud website hosting platforms with in-house created web hosting Control Panels besides us, at SpaceNET Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.
Cloud hosting hardware provision fees
The minimal investment wanted, only for the cloud hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and $80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud hosting systems can be discovered out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and nearly cloudless!