Cloud Hosting Clarified
Actually, the real cloud hosting solution serves distinct hosting services like disk space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on individual bunches of deluxe web servers. Each particular service set produces a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the given service and nothing beside it. They will all work as one single web server, sharing the service's load in almost the same proportions. If there is an authentic cloud hosting service, there must be: a data storage cluster, a mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these different service clusters will beget the so-called cloud website hosting platform.
The mammoth cloud web hosting fraud. Very modern these days.
There is so much misunderstanding going around about cloud hosting at the moment. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only sound complicated, but in fact it is greatly perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. Based on this popular ignorance, the "cloud web hosting retailers" speculate eagerly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five dollars per month. What a shame! A vast disgrace. This is because in the website hosting business there are no statutes at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such regulative body. That is the reason why the hosting firms speculate and lie openly (very directly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud web hosting they indeed can provide.
The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting vendors
If a cPanel-based web hosting retailer has a cloud hosting system at hand, which is very unbelievable, loads of servers must be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this review. First off, let's examine what the cloud complications are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel web hosting vendor to have the cloud website hosting platform at hand, in that building one demands years. Even when time and the provision of competent personnel are not a problem, loads of cash must be invested as well. Tons of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous inconvenience.
The deficiency of open source cloud hosting platforms
There are no open source cloud web hosting environments. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel GUIs (working with the cloud web hosting platform) as well. So, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, first you have to fabricate one. In-house. In the second place, you must build the web hosting Control Panel as well.
Single server-based Control Panels
Modern hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to perform on one server exclusively. All web hosting services (disk space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on one server where these respective single-server web hosting systems and hosting CPs are installed.
The deficiency of open source CPs
So, you have to establish an in-house built web hosting CP that will operate faultlessly and to accommodate it within the cloud system, as if it was a natural part of it. Good instances of custom developed cloud website hosting systems with custom manufactured CPs besides us, at , are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.
Cloud hosting hardware provision fares
The minimal contribution needed, just for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another $15-20,000. Now you do know how many cloud hosting systems can be detected out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so azure... and practically unclouded!