What Exactly is Cloud Hosting?

Essentially, the authentic cloud hosting solution serves individual web hosting services such as data storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting CP, backup, and so on, on independent bunches of deluxe web servers. Each individual service set generates a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all function as one single web server, sharing the service's load in practically the same proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there would be: a disk storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these autonomous service clusters will form the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The big cloud website hosting fraud. Quite widespread at present.

There is so much misunderstanding going around about cloud web hosting these days. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only seem complicated, but actually it is intensely complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this universal ignorance, the "cloud website hosting vendors" speculate fervently, just to secure the customer and his/her five dollars a month. What a disgrace! An immense disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the hosting industry niche there are no laws whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The hosting industry niche has no such supervising institution. This is the reason why the hosting traders speculate and lie blatantly (quite bluntly, in fact) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's determine how much cloud web hosting they in reality can furnish.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting suppliers

If a cPanel-based website hosting trader has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is quite improbable, lots of hosting servers have to be purchased. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that at the end of this story. First off, let's see what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel hosting vendor to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, for fabricating one demands years. Even when time and the provision of an expert staff are not a problem, a lot of cash has to be invested too. Piles of money. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a big problem.

The lack of open source cloud hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting environments. There aren't any open source CP tools (functioning with the cloud web hosting system) either. So, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, first of all you must set up one. In-house. Second of all, you have to create the web hosting CP as well.

Single server-based website hosting CPs

Famous web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are constructed to work on one single web server exclusively. All web hosting services (web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at the very same time on one single web server where these given one-server web hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The deficiency of open source CPs

So, you must create an in-house built website hosting CP that will perform uncomplicatedly and to integrate it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible part of it. Appropriate examples of custom devised cloud website hosting systems with custom invented web hosting CPs besides us, at Dragon Web Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision expenses

The minimal contribution wanted, just for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, equals somewhere between 60,000 dollars and eighty thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS device, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you do know how many cloud hosting systems can be chanced on out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and virtually unclouded!