What is Cloud Web Hosting?

Actually, the actual cloud website hosting solution serves individual web hosting services such as disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, and so on, on autonomous bunches of high-end servers. Each particular service pack creates a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing aside from it. They will all run as one single web server, sharing the service's load in approximately equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there must be: a disk storage 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, etc. All these individual service clusters will render the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The great cloud website hosting trick. Very common these days.

There is so much confusion circulating around about cloud hosting now. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only sound complicated, but in reality it is highly complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. Based on this popular unawareness, the "cloud hosting vendors" speculate feverishly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a shame! A vast disgrace. This is because in the web hosting industry there are no laws at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such regulative body. This is the reason why the web hosting providers speculate and lie openly (very directly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's ascertain how much cloud web hosting they indeed can provide.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting merchandisers

If a cPanel-based hosting distributor has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is quite improbable, loads of servers must be acquired. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that towards the end of this review. But before we do, let's see what the cloud troubles are. So, it's very unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting provider to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, for inventing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of expert personnel are not a problem, plenty of money has to be invested too. Heaps of cash. Furthermore, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense defect.

The absence of open source cloud website hosting platforms

There are no open source cloud hosting environments. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel tools (working with the cloud website hosting solution) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting solution at hand, first of all you have to fabricate one. In-house. In the second place, you have to fabricate the web hosting CP as well.

Single server-based web hosting CPs

Contemporary web hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are manufactured to work on one single web server only. All web hosting services (disk storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at one and the same time on one single server where these given single-server website hosting systems and hosting CPs are installed.

The shortage of open source hosting CPs

So, you must invent an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will function perfectly and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inbuilt constituent of it. Proper examples of custom devised cloud website hosting platforms with custom invented web hosting Control Panels besides us, at HostGush, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment fees

The minimal contribution wanted, just for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 USD and eighty thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS device, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud website hosting platforms can be encountered out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and virtually cloudless!