Definition of Cloud Hosting

Essentially, the genuine cloud website hosting platform serves distinct website hosting services like disk storage, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on individual bunches of top-quality servers. Each separate service pack makes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the given service and nothing else. They will all work as one server, sharing the service's load in approximately equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a storage space cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these different service clusters will form the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The mammoth cloud website hosting hoax. Quite common nowadays.

There is so much confusion revolving around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only appear complicated, but in reality it is very complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. Based on this universal ignorance, the "cloud website hosting distributors" speculate fiercely, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a disgrace! A big shame. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no norms at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such self-controlling body. This is the reason why the web hosting wholesalers speculate and lie openly (very bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's learn how much cloud web hosting they in fact can provide.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" hosting distributors

If a cPanel-based web hosting merchandiser has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is quite improbable, numerous hosting servers have to be ensured. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that towards the end of this story. First off, let's see what the cloud complications are. So, it's very unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting wholesaler to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, for inventing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of an experienced staff are not an issue, lots of money must be invested too. Piles of cash. Furthermore, cPanel is not open source. That's a big downside.

The shortage of open source cloud website hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting solutions. There aren't any open source CP user interfaces (operating with the cloud web hosting solution) as well. Hence, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, in the first place you must invent one. In-house. In the second place, you have to develop the website hosting CP as well.

Single server-based web hosting Control Panels

Contemporary Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are created to function on a single server solely. All web hosting services (disk storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on a single server where these given single-server website hosting systems and website hosting Control Panels are installed.

The absence of open source web hosting CPs

So, you must fabricate a custom web hosting Control Panel that will perform unproblematically and to incorporate it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible part of it. Suitable examples of in-house invented cloud website hosting solutions with custom built web hosting Control Panels besides us, at EMDICOM, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment expenses

The smallest contribution demanded, only for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, equals somewhere between $60,000 USD and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you do know how many cloud website hosting systems can be stumbled upon out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost cloudless!