What is Cloud Website Hosting?

Actually, the real cloud hosting platform serves distinct hosting services like web space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on autonomous packs of avant-garde servers. Each individual service set produces a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the given service and nothing else. They will all operate as one single web server, sharing the service's load in almost equivalent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there has to 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, etc. All these independent service clusters will produce the so-called cloud hosting system.

The gigantic cloud website hosting trick. Quite common at the moment.

There is so much speculation circulating around about cloud hosting nowadays. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but actually it is intensely complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this popular unawareness, the "cloud web hosting corporations" speculate strongly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a disgrace! An enormous shame. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting business there are no stipulations at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such administrative body. This is why the hosting providers speculate and lie openly (quite bluntly, in fact) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's determine how much cloud hosting they indeed can deliver.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" hosting corporations

If a cPanel-based website hosting company has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is quite unlikely, loads of hosting servers must be bought. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this article. But before we do, let's find out what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel hosting retailer to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, as developing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of an experienced team are not an issue, loads of cash must be invested too. Stacks of cash. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast disadvantage.

The deficiency of open source cloud hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting environments. There aren't any open source web hosting Control Panel interfaces (operating with the cloud website hosting platform) as well. So, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, in the first place you must build one. In-house. In the second place, you have to build the web hosting CP too.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Popular Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are created to work on a single server only. All web hosting services (disk space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on one single server where these specific one-server hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The lack of open source Control Panels

So, you must devise an in-house built website hosting Control Panel that will perform unproblematically and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural constituent of it. Suitable instances of custom made cloud web hosting platforms with in-house constructed CPs besides us, at Merwinservers, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment charges

The minimum contribution required, just for the cloud hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80 thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS mechanism, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting solutions can be found out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so azure... and virtually cloudless!