Cloud Web Hosting Definition

Essentially, the authentic cloud website hosting platform serves individual website hosting services such as data storage, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, etc., on separate hosts of avant-garde web servers. Each particular service group forms a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the given service and nothing beside it. They will all function as one web server, sharing the service's load in practically equal proportions. If there is an authentic cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a storage space cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these autonomous service clusters will generate the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The great cloud hosting trick. Very modern at present.

There is so much misunderstanding revolving around about cloud hosting nowadays. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only seem complicated, but in reality it is excessively perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. Based on this common unawareness, the "cloud website hosting vendors" speculate fervently, just to secure the customer and his/her five dollars per month. What a shame! An enormous shame. This is because in the web hosting business niche there are no rules at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such supervising institution. That is the reason why the web hosting merchants speculate and lie overtly (quite directly, actually) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's determine how much cloud hosting they in fact can offer.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" hosting firms

If a cPanel-based web hosting vendor has a cloud hosting platform at hand, which is very improbable, loads of hosting servers have to be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this story. But before we do, let's find out what the cloud problems are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel hosting vendor to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, because of the fact that fabricating one requires years. Even when time and the provision of expert personnel are not a problem, a lot of cash must be invested too. Stacks of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a big obstacle.

The deficiency of open source cloud website hosting environments

There are no open source cloud website hosting solutions. There aren't any open source web hosting CP tools (working with the cloud hosting platform) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting solution at hand, first you have to establish one. In-house. Second of all, you have to set up the hosting Control Panel too.

Single server-based web hosting Control Panels

Popular website hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to run on a single web server exclusively. All website hosting services (disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at one and the same time on a single web server where these respective single-server web hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The lack of open source hosting CPs

So, you have to establish an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will function flawlessly and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible constituent of it. Good examples of custom constructed cloud web hosting solutions with in-house created hosting Control Panels besides us, at SparServer, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment charges

The smallest investment wanted, just for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS tool, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud website hosting platforms can be stumbled upon out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and practically cloudless!