What Precisely is Cloud Hosting?
Actually, the real cloud website hosting platform serves various hosting services like storage space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, etc., on independent groups of avant-garde web servers. Each separate service pack produces a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the particular service and nothing else. They will all operate as one server, sharing out the service's load in nearly the same proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there would be: a disk space cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these different service clusters will compose the so-called cloud web hosting system.
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The huge cloud web hosting deceit. Quite widespread nowadays.
There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud web hosting at the moment. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only sound perplexing, but in fact it is intensely perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. Based on this common unawareness, the "cloud web hosting vendors" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the client and his/her five bucks per month. What a disgrace! A huge shame. This is due to the fact that in the website hosting industry there are no ordinances at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such supervisory institution. That is why the hosting traders speculate and lie openly (quite bluntly, in fact) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud hosting they in reality can furnish.
The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting merchandisers
If a cPanel-based web hosting distributor has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is quite improbable, a lot of servers have to be purchased. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that at the end of this review. But before we do, let's explore what the cloud problems are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel web hosting wholesaler to keep the cloud web hosting system at hand, for constructing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient staff are not a predicament, a lot of cash must be invested too. Heaps of money. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a big downside.
The deficiency of open source cloud website hosting environments
There are no open source cloud web hosting platforms. There are no open source website hosting CP instruments (working with the cloud website hosting platform) either. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, in the first place you must create one. In-house. Second of all, you have to set up the website hosting Control Panel too.
Single server-based website hosting CPs
Popular website hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to work on one server only. All website hosting services (data storage, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at the same time on a single server where these respective one-server web hosting systems and website hosting Control Panels are set up.
The lack of open source website hosting CPs
So, you have to build a custom web hosting CP that will perform perfectly and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible component of it. Appropriate examples of in-house constructed cloud web hosting platforms with in-house set up web hosting CPs besides us, at Proyectosweb3, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.
Cloud website hosting hardware equipment expenses
The smallest contribution needed, just for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between $60,000 USD and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS device, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting systems can be found out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so turquoise... and nearly cloudless!