What Does Cloud Web Hosting Stand for?

In general, the authentic cloud website hosting solution serves various hosting services such as web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on individual bunches of top-quality web servers. Each specific service group constitutes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the specific service and nothing aside from it. They will all run as one server, sharing out the service's load in nearly equal proportions. If there is a genuine cloud website hosting service, there would be: a web space 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 different service clusters will compose the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The great cloud hosting scam. Quite popular at the moment.

There is so much misunderstanding going around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only seem perplexing, but actually it is extremely complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. On the basis of this widely spread unawareness, the "cloud website hosting merchandisers" speculate fiercely, just to secure the customer and his/her five bucks per month. What a shame! A great shame. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting business niche there are no statutes whatsoever. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such supervising organization. This is the reason why the web hosting corporations speculate and lie openly (quite bluntly, in fact) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's discover how much cloud web hosting they in fact can supply.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting companies

If a cPanel-based website hosting supplier has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is very unlikely, multiple web servers have to be bought. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this review. But before we do, let's examine what the cloud problems are. So, it's very unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting corporation to keep the cloud hosting platform at hand, as inventing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified personnel are not a problem, lots of cash must be spent as well. Mountains of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast obstacle.

The absence of open source cloud website hosting platforms

There are no open source cloud website hosting platforms. There are no open source CP instruments (operating with the cloud website hosting platform) as well. Hence, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, first of all you have to create one. In-house. Secondly, you must develop the CP too.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Famous website hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are made to run on one single server only. All website hosting services (disk space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on one server where these given single-server web hosting platforms and web hosting CPs are set up.

The deficiency of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to develop an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will operate faultlessly and to add it within the cloud system, as if it was an inbuilt constituent of it. Suitable instances of custom devised cloud hosting solutions with custom constructed web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Fiddyhost, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment costs

The minimal contribution demanded, just for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and eighty thousand dollars. 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 discovered out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost cloudless!