What Precisely is Cloud Hosting?

Essentially, the authentic cloud hosting platform serves individual web hosting services such as disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on autonomous hosts of very advanced web servers. Each separate service set constitutes a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the given service and nothing beside it. They will all perform as one single server, sharing out the service's load in almost the same proportions. If there is an authentic cloud hosting service, there would be: a disk storage cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these individual service clusters will make the so-called cloud hosting platform.

The gigantic cloud web hosting hoax. Quite common at the moment.

There is so much confusion circulating around about cloud hosting today. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but in fact it is highly complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. Based on this universal unawareness, the "cloud web hosting companies" speculate eagerly, just to get hold of the client and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a disgrace! A great shame. This is because in the web hosting industry there are no norms whatsoever. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such self-regulative organization. This is why the website hosting vendors speculate and lie openly (quite bluntly, actually) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud web hosting they in reality can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based hosting trader has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is quite unbelievable, numerous hosting servers must be obtained. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this article. First, let's examine what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel web hosting supplier to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, because developing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of an experienced staff are not a predicament, plenty of cash has to be invested as well. Heaps of cash. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous defect.

The deficiency of open source cloud hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting platforms. There are no open source web hosting CP interfaces (operating with the cloud web hosting system) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, first you must devise one. In-house. Secondly, you must develop the web hosting Control Panel too.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Popular website hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to run on one single web server only. All web hosting services (storage space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at one and the same time on one web server where these respective one-server web hosting systems and website hosting CPs are set up.

The lack of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you must devise a custom web hosting Control Panel that will run flawlessly and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible component of it. Appropriate instances of in-house created cloud web hosting solutions with custom built web hosting Control Panels besides us, at IPguide, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision rates

The minimal investment required, only for the cloud hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between $60,000 and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another $15-20,000. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting platforms can be encountered out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost cloudless!