Cloud Hosting Definition

Actually, the genuine cloud website hosting platform serves various web hosting services such as storage space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on independent sets of very powerful servers. Each particular service pack makes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the particular service and nothing apart from it. They will all function as one server, sharing the service's load in nearly the same proportions. If there is a genuine cloud website hosting service, there would be: a web space cluster, a mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these separate service clusters will form the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The mammoth cloud website hosting swindle. Very popular now.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud hosting at the moment. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only seem perplexing, but actually it is intensely perplexing. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. On the basis of this common ignorance, the "cloud website hosting merchandisers" speculate fiercely, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a shame! An enormous shame. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no tenets whatsoever. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such administrative organization. This is the reason why the website hosting distributors speculate and lie openly (very directly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's learn how much cloud hosting they in reality can supply.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting companies

If a cPanel-based web hosting distributor has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is very improbable, a lot of web hosting servers have to be ensured. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this story. But before we do, let's see what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting corporation to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, due to the fact that creating one demands years. Even when time and the provision of an expert staff are not a problem, lots of cash has to be invested as well. Heaps of money. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a great inconvenience.

The deficiency of open source cloud website hosting systems

There are no open source cloud web hosting solutions. There are no open source CP tools (working with the cloud website hosting solution) either. Hence, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, first of all you must set up one. In-house. Secondly, you have to develop the web hosting Control Panel too.

Single server-based CPs

Famous web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to function on one single web server solely. All web hosting services (storage space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on one single server where these respective one-server web hosting platforms and website hosting Control Panels are set up.

The lack of open source hosting Control Panels

So, you must devise an in-house built Control Panel that will operate flawlessly and to accommodate it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible constituent of it. Good examples of in-house developed cloud website hosting systems with in-house built web hosting CPs besides us, at Hospedary, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment fares

The minimum contribution demanded, only for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between $60,000 USD and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS device, which is another $15-20,000. Now you are well aware of how many cloud website hosting systems can be chanced on out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so azure... and almost unclouded!