What Exactly is Cloud Hosting?

In general, the actual cloud web hosting platform serves individual website hosting services like disk space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on independent packs of high-end servers. Each specific service pack constitutes a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all run as one web server, sharing out the service's load in nearly equipollent proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there should be: a storage space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these individual service clusters will beget the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The huge cloud web hosting fraud. Very common at the moment.

There is so much speculation revolving around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only sound perplexing, but in fact it is intensely perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. Based on this popular unawareness, the "cloud web hosting retailers" speculate intensely, just to secure the client and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a disgrace! An immense disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting business there are no ordinances at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such supervisory body. That is why the web hosting retailers speculate and tell lies overtly (very bluntly, in fact) to their clients. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's uncover how much cloud hosting they actually can supply.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting supplier has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is quite unbelievable, loads of web hosting servers have to be secured. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that at the end of this review. First, let's see what the cloud problems are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel hosting merchant to keep the cloud hosting system at hand, owing to the fact that devising one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a competent staff are not an issue, a lot of cash has to be spent too. Stacks of money. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous defect.

The shortage of open source cloud web hosting environments

There are no open source cloud website hosting systems. There are no open source website hosting CP interfaces (running with the cloud website hosting system) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud web hosting platform at hand, first you have to invent one. In-house. Secondly, you must establish the website hosting CP too.

Single server-based web hosting Control Panels

Contemporary website hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to perform on one server solely. All web hosting services (web space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served simultaneously on one server where these particular one-server web hosting systems and web hosting CPs are installed.

The absence of open source web hosting CPs

So, you must set up an in-house built web hosting CP that will operate perfectly and to integrate it within the cloud system, as if it was a natural constituent of it. Good instances of custom built cloud website hosting systems with custom created hosting Control Panels besides us, at LiquidNet, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware equipment fares

The minimum contribution needed, only for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between $60,000 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 systems can be detected out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and practically cloudless!