What Indeed is Cloud Hosting?

Actually, the real cloud website hosting platform serves distinct web hosting services like web space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on individual packs of very advanced web servers. Each individual service set generates a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing apart from it. They will all function as one web server, sharing the service's load in approximately equipollent proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there would be: a storage space cluster, an email 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 autonomous service clusters will render the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The gigantic cloud hosting trick. Quite modern nowadays.

There is so much speculation revolving around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only sound perplexing, but actually it is greatly perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this common unawareness, the "cloud web hosting distributors" speculate strongly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a shame! An enormous disgrace. This is because in the web hosting industry niche there are no statutes whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such administrative body. That is the reason why the website hosting wholesalers speculate and tell lies blatantly (very directly, actually) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud hosting they actually can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting vendor has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is quite unbelievable, many servers must be obtained. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this review. First, let's examine what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel web hosting vendor to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, since setting up one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a competent staff are not a problem, loads of cash must be spent too. Piles of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a big inconvenience.

The lack of open source cloud website hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting platforms. There aren't any open source web hosting CP user interfaces (operating with the cloud web hosting platform) as well. Hence, to have a cloud website hosting solution at hand, in the first place you must construct one. In-house. Secondly, you have to build the web hosting Control Panel too.

Single server-based website hosting CPs

Modern web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to run on one web server solely. All hosting services (disk space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at the same time on a single web server where these specific one-server website hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are installed.

The absence of open source hosting Control Panels

So, you must make a custom website hosting Control Panel that will run faultlessly and to include it within the cloud system, as if it was a natural part of it. Proper examples of custom created cloud web hosting systems with in-house created hosting CPs besides us, at DreamHost, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment fees

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