What Actually is Cloud Hosting?
In general, the genuine cloud hosting solution serves separate web hosting services such as data storage, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, and so on, on independent hosts of cutting-edge web servers. Each particular service group produces a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the given service and nothing aside from it. They will all perform as one single web server, sharing the service's load in almost identical proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there must be: a storage space cluster, a mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these individual service clusters will form the so-called cloud hosting system.
The enormous cloud website hosting trick. Quite common at the moment.
There is so much confusion going around about cloud web hosting today. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only seem perplexing, but in reality it is greatly complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this popular unawareness, the "cloud website hosting companies" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five dollars per month. What a disgrace! An immense disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the hosting industry there are no norms whatsoever. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such self-regulative institution. That is why the web hosting retailers speculate and lie openly (very bluntly, actually) to their clients. Notably the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud web hosting they indeed can provide.
The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting traders
If a cPanel-based web hosting provider has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is quite improbable, plenty of web servers have to be bought. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this review. First, let's explore what the cloud complications are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel hosting merchandiser to keep the cloud website hosting system at hand, due to the fact that building one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified team are not a problem, a lot of cash must be spent as well. Mountains of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a big inconvenience.
The shortage of open source cloud hosting solutions
There aren't any open source cloud website hosting platforms. There aren't any open source website hosting Control Panel instruments (operating with the cloud website hosting platform) either. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, first of all you must create one. In-house. Second of all, you have to construct the hosting Control Panel too.
One server-based website hosting Control Panels
Today's popular website hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are constructed to work on one web server only. All hosting services (data storage, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served concurrently on one single server where these given single-server web hosting systems and website hosting Control Panels are installed.
The deficiency of open source web hosting Control Panels
So, you must build an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will perform perfectly and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent part of it. Proper examples of custom developed cloud web hosting platforms with custom created hosting CPs besides us, at , are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.
Cloud hosting hardware equipment expenses
The minimum investment required, only for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between $60,000 and 80,000 dollars. That's excluding the DDoS appliance, which is another $15-20,000. Now you do know how many cloud hosting platforms can be discovered out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so azure... and nearly unclouded!