What is Cloud Hosting?

Essentially, the real cloud website hosting platform serves individual hosting services like storage space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on autonomous hosts of very advanced servers. Each single service group creates a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the given service and nothing aside from it. They will all function as one server, sharing out the service's load in practically the same proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there must be: a disk storage cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a website hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these individual service clusters will create the so-called cloud hosting platform.

The immense cloud web hosting fraud. Very widespread today.

There is so much confusion circulating around about cloud hosting nowadays. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only sound complicated, but in fact it is excessively perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. On the wings of this common ignorance, the "cloud website hosting traders" speculate fiercely, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five dollars per month. What a shame! A huge shame. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting business there are no regulations at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such self-governing body. This is the reason why the website hosting merchandisers speculate and lie openly (very directly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud hosting they indeed can furnish.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting firms

If a cPanel-based website hosting wholesaler has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is very unlikely, multiple hosting servers have to be acquired. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this article. But before we do, let's find out what the cloud complications are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel web hosting supplier to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, because of the fact that constructing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of experienced personnel are not an issue, plenty of money must be invested as well. Heaps of cash. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense predicament.

The deficiency of open source cloud website hosting environments

There are no open source cloud web hosting platforms. There are no open source CP user interfaces (operating with the cloud website hosting platform) either. So, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, first of all you must build one. In-house. Second of all, you have to establish the web hosting Control Panel too.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Famous website hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are constructed to operate on a single web server only. All website hosting services (data storage, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on one web server where these particular single-server website hosting systems and hosting Control Panels are installed.

The lack of open source web hosting CPs

So, you must fabricate a custom hosting Control Panel that will function flawlessly and to integrate it within the cloud system, as if it was a natural part of it. Suitable instances of custom constructed cloud website hosting platforms with custom invented Control Panels besides us, at PN Scripts, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment rates

The smallest contribution wanted, just for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, equals somewhere between 60,000 USD and eighty thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS tool, which is another $15-20,000. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting platforms can be chanced on out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so azure... and practically cloudless!