What is Cloud Web Hosting?

In general, the genuine cloud website hosting platform serves separate hosting services such as disk storage, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, and so on, on different groups of high-end servers. Each particular service pack creates a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the particular service and nothing else. They will all operate as one single web server, sharing the service's load in almost equivalent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud website hosting service, there has to be: a data storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these autonomous service clusters will make the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The huge cloud web hosting deceit. Very popular these days.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud hosting now. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only appear complicated, but actually it is greatly complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud website hosting is. On the basis of this widespread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting companies" speculate fervently, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five bucks per month. What a shame! A huge shame. This is because in the web hosting business niche there are no ordinances at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such self-governing body. That is the reason why the website hosting distributors speculate and tell lies openly (very directly, actually) to their customers. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud web hosting they in reality can provide.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting retailer has a cloud web hosting system at hand, which is quite improbable, loads of servers must be secured. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this article. First, let's find out what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel web hosting trader to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, because creating one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a professional team are not an issue, a lot of cash must be invested as well. Mountains of money. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous drawback.

The shortage of open source cloud website hosting platforms

There are no open source cloud web hosting environments. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel user interfaces (functioning with the cloud web hosting platform) either. So, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, first you must make one. In-house. Secondly, you have to build the website hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based hosting CPs

Contemporary web hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are devised to operate on a single server exclusively. All website hosting services (data storage, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at the very same time on one single server where these particular single-server website hosting platforms and website hosting Control Panels are set up.

The deficiency of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to invent a custom hosting Control Panel that will perform perfectly and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained constituent of it. Appropriate instances of in-house constructed cloud website hosting solutions with in-house created website hosting CPs besides us, at Supportive Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware provision expenses

The smallest contribution needed, just for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, equals somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80,000 dollars. That's excluding the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting solutions can be encountered out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so azure... and virtually cloudless!