Cloud Hosting Unveiled

Actually, the real cloud hosting solution serves separate website hosting services like data storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on different bunches of leading edge web servers. Each specific service pack creates a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the given service and nothing aside from it. They will all work as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in practically the same proportions. If there is an authentic cloud hosting service, there has to be: a storage space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a website hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these individual service clusters will beget the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The enormous cloud website hosting fraud. Quite modern at the moment.

There is so much misunderstanding revolving around about cloud hosting at the moment. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only sound complicated, but actually it is very perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this widely spread ignorance, the "cloud website hosting retailers" speculate fervently, just to get hold of the client and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a shame! A big shame. This is because in the web hosting business there are no rules at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such administrative body. This is why the web hosting companies speculate and lie openly (quite directly, in fact) to their customers. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's determine how much cloud web hosting they in fact can provide.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting traders

If a cPanel-based web hosting firm has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very improbable, lots of hosting servers have to be obtained. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this review. But before we do, let's explore what the cloud problems are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel hosting company to have the cloud hosting platform at hand, because establishing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified personnel are not a predicament, loads of cash has to be spent too. Piles of cash. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's a big defect.

The absence of open source cloud hosting environments

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting environments. There aren't any open source web hosting Control Panel user interfaces (functioning with the cloud web hosting solution) as well. So, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, first of all you have to set up one. In-house. Second of all, you have to create the web hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based website hosting Control Panels

Popular web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to work on one single server only. All website hosting services (disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at one and the same time on a single web server where these particular one-server web hosting systems and web hosting CPs are set up.

The lack of open source website hosting CPs

So, you have to fabricate a custom hosting CP that will perform flawlessly and to integrate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained part of it. Proper instances of custom made cloud website hosting platforms with in-house constructed hosting CPs besides us, at CompTek Online, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision prices

The minimum contribution demanded, only for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 USD and $80,000. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you do know how many cloud hosting solutions can be stumbled upon out there... and, especially, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and almost cloudless!