What Exactly is Cloud Web Hosting?

Essentially, the real cloud website hosting platform serves distinct web hosting services like storage space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, and so on, on independent sets of very powerful web servers. Each different service group produces a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the specific service and nothing beside it. They will all function as one web server, sharing out the service's load in approximately identical proportions. If there is a genuine cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a disk space cluster, a mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these autonomous service clusters will beget the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The big cloud web hosting trick. Quite common now.

There is so much speculation circulating around about cloud web hosting at the moment. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only appear complicated, but actually it is greatly complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this popular ignorance, the "cloud website hosting distributors" speculate fervently, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five dollars a month. What a shame! A huge disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting industry niche there are no ordinances at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such regulatory organization. That is the reason why the website hosting suppliers speculate and tell lies openly (very bluntly, actually) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud hosting they in reality can offer.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting trader has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is quite unlikely, plenty of servers must be secured. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that at the end of this review. But before we do, let's explore what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very unbelievable for a cPanel hosting distributor to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, as constructing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of an expert team are not an issue, lots of money has to be invested too. Stacks of money. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's a great obstacle.

The lack of open source cloud website hosting environments

There are no open source cloud hosting environments. There aren't any open source web hosting CP devices (working with the cloud web hosting system) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, in the first place you must fabricate one. In-house. Second of all, you must set up the web hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based website hosting CPs

Famous web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are manufactured to function on one single server solely. All hosting services (web space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at the very same time on one web server where these particular single-server hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are installed.

The deficiency of open source hosting CPs

So, you have to build an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will work perfectly and to add it within the cloud system, as if it was an inbuilt component of it. Appropriate instances of custom set up cloud website hosting platforms with in-house built CPs besides us, at PickMweb, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision expenses

The smallest contribution needed, only for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and 80,000 dollars. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you are well aware of how many cloud website hosting solutions can be discovered out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost unclouded!