What Precisely is Cloud Hosting?

Essentially, the real cloud hosting platform serves different web hosting services like storage space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on separate stacks of very advanced web servers. Each separate service group generates a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the specific service and nothing beside it. They will all run as one web server, sharing the service's load in almost equal proportions. If there is an authentic cloud hosting service, there should be: a web space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these autonomous service clusters will build the so-called cloud website hosting system.

The massive cloud web hosting hoax. Very common at present.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud hosting at the moment. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but actually it is excessively perplexing. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this popular unawareness, the "cloud web hosting wholesalers" speculate strongly, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a shame! A huge disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting industry there are no enactments at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such supervisory institution. This is why the hosting suppliers speculate and lie openly (quite directly, actually) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's uncover how much cloud web hosting they in fact can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting retailer has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is quite improbable, numerous web servers have to be secured. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that at the end of this article. First off, let's examine what the cloud problems are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel web hosting supplier to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, because constructing one requires years. Even when time and the provision of competent personnel are not an issue, plenty of cash must be spent as well. Tons of cash. Furthermore, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous predicament.

The deficiency of open source cloud hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud hosting solutions. There are no open source CP user interfaces (operating with the cloud website hosting solution) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, first you have to invent one. In-house. In the second place, you have to develop the web hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based CPs

Modern web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are made to operate on one single web server only. All web hosting services (disk space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on a single web server where these given single-server web hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are installed.

The deficiency of open source hosting Control Panels

So, you must make an in-house built CP that will function faultlessly and to add it within the cloud system, as if it was a natural constituent of it. Suitable instances of custom set up cloud web hosting systems with custom invented hosting Control Panels besides us, at MindMeld Networks, LLC, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision prices

The smallest contribution wanted, just for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between $60,000 and 80,000 dollars. That's omitting the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting solutions can be detected out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and almost cloudless!