Cloud Hosting Definition

In general, the actual cloud hosting platform serves distinct hosting services like storage space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, hosting CP, backup, and so on, on individual groups of very advanced servers. Each specific service set constitutes a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the given service and nothing else. They will all run as one single server, sharing out the service's load in almost the same proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there would be: a storage space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these independent service clusters will build the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The great cloud website hosting trick. Very widespread now.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud web hosting these days. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only sound perplexing, but in fact it is intensely complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this common ignorance, the "cloud website hosting corporations" speculate fiercely, just to secure the client and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a shame! A big disgrace. This is because in the website hosting industry there are no ordinances whatsoever. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The hosting industry has no such self-regulative institution. This is why the website hosting distributors speculate and lie overtly (quite bluntly, in fact) to their clients. Notably the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud web hosting they actually can offer.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting merchant has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is quite unlikely, plenty of web servers must be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this article. But before we do, let's see what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel hosting merchandiser to keep the cloud website hosting system at hand, owing to the fact that constructing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of an expert staff are not a problem, plenty of cash must be invested too. Tons of cash. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast problem.

The deficiency of open source cloud hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud website hosting environments. There are no open source web hosting CP tools (working with the cloud website hosting system) either. Hence, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, first you have to develop one. In-house. In the second place, you must devise the web hosting CP as well.

Single server-based website hosting CPs

Today's popular web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are set up to function on one single web server solely. All website hosting services (disk storage, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on one server where these particular one-server web hosting systems and web hosting CPs are installed.

The shortage of open source CPs

So, you must devise an in-house built website hosting Control Panel that will perform uncomplicatedly and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible component of it. Suitable examples of in-house developed cloud web hosting solutions with custom manufactured website hosting CPs besides us, at godadywebhost, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment prices

The minimum contribution wanted, only for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and $80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS tool, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud hosting solutions can be chanced on out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and practically cloudless!