What Precisely is Cloud Web Hosting?

In general, the genuine cloud web hosting solution serves distinct website hosting services such as disk storage, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on independent sets of leading edge web servers. Each different service set constitutes a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing apart from it. They will all run as one web server, sharing the service's load in practically the same proportions. If there is a genuine cloud web hosting service, there has to be: a web space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these different service clusters will create the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The substantial cloud web hosting fraud. Very common these days.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud hosting at the moment. As you can perceive, cloud web hosting does not only sound complicated, but in reality it is highly complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. On the basis of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting providers" speculate eagerly, just to get hold of the client and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a disgrace! A great disgrace. This is because in the hosting industry there are no laws whatsoever. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such regulative organization. This is why the web hosting traders speculate and tell lies overtly (quite bluntly, in fact) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's check how much cloud hosting they in fact can offer.

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

If a cPanel-based hosting corporation has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very improbable, numerous web hosting servers must be bought. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this review. First off, let's find out what the cloud problems are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel web hosting wholesaler to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, due to the fact that fabricating one requires years. Even when time and the provision of competent personnel are not an issue, loads of money must be spent too. Mountains of cash. Furthermore, cPanel is not open source. That's a big disadvantage.

The absence of open source cloud web hosting environments

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting solutions. There are no open source website hosting Control Panel instruments (operating with the cloud website hosting system) either. Hence, to have a cloud web hosting system at hand, in the first place you have to establish one. In-house. In the second place, you have to invent the website hosting CP as well.

Single server-based website hosting Control Panels

Modern website hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to work on one single server exclusively. All web hosting services (storage space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at one and the same time on one web server where these given one-server web hosting platforms and hosting CPs are installed.

The lack of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to create an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will work impeccably and to include it within the cloud system, as if it was an inherent component of it. Appropriate instances of custom manufactured cloud web hosting solutions with custom created website hosting Control Panels besides us, at Egavas Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision fees

The minimum contribution required, just for the cloud web hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and $80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud web hosting platforms can be found out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost cloudless!