What In Fact is Cloud Hosting?

In general, the authentic cloud hosting solution serves distinct web hosting services like web space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting CP, backup, etc., on autonomous packs of very advanced web servers. Each particular service group makes a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all run as one single web server, sharing the service's load in approximately the same proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there should be: a disk space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these individual service clusters will produce the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The substantial cloud web hosting swindle. Very popular nowadays.

There is so much misunderstanding going around about cloud hosting today. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only seem complicated, but in reality it is intensely perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this universal ignorance, the "cloud hosting vendors" speculate feverishly, just to secure the customer and his/her five bucks a month. What a shame! A big shame. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting business niche there are no principles at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The hosting industry niche has no such legislative body. That is the reason why the hosting companies speculate and tell lies overtly (very directly, actually) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's ascertain how much cloud web hosting they in reality can distribute.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting vendors

If a cPanel-based web hosting provider has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very unlikely, a lot of hosting servers have to be bought. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this story. First, let's examine what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting supplier to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, because of the fact that constructing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a professional team are not a problem, plenty of cash must be invested too. Piles of money. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense disadvantage.

The lack of open source cloud hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting platforms. There aren't any open source Control Panel user interfaces (running with the cloud web hosting system) as well. Hence, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, in the first place you must set up one. In-house. In the second place, you must invent the website hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Famous website hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are built to perform on a single server only. All website hosting services (disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on one single server where these particular single-server website hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The lack of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to make a custom web hosting CP that will work perfectly and to accommodate it within the cloud system, as if it was a natural constituent of it. Proper examples of custom set up cloud hosting systems with custom made web hosting Control Panels besides us, at BigHost, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision prices

The smallest contribution needed, only for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and eighty thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS tool, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud hosting platforms can be stumbled upon out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and almost unclouded!