What is Cloud Web Hosting?

Essentially, the authentic cloud web hosting solution serves individual website hosting services such as storage space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, CP, backup, and so on, on separate groups of deluxe web servers. Each particular service set makes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the specific service and nothing apart from it. They will all perform as one single server, sharing out the service's load in practically the same proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there has to be: a disk storage 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, etc. All these independent service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The great cloud website hosting deceit. Quite modern now.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud hosting at the moment. As you can perceive, cloud web hosting does not only seem complicated, but in fact it is very complicated. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud web hosting is. On the wings of this widespread ignorance, the "cloud hosting wholesalers" speculate feverishly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a shame! A vast disgrace. This is because in the website hosting industry there are no laws at all. The domain name industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such regulatory body. This is why the website hosting companies speculate and lie blatantly (very directly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's discover how much cloud web hosting they in reality can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting firm has a cloud hosting solution at hand, which is very improbable, many web servers must be paid for. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that towards the end of this review. But before we do, let's see what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting firm to keep the cloud website hosting system at hand, in that making one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient team are not an issue, plenty of money has to be spent too. Mountains of money. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous defect.

The absence of open source cloud web hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting solutions. There aren't any open source website hosting CP interfaces (working with the cloud web hosting platform) either. So, to have a cloud web hosting system at hand, in the first place you must build one. In-house. Secondly, you must fabricate the web hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based web hosting Control Panels

Famous web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are created to operate on one web server solely. All web hosting services (disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on a single web server where these given one-server web hosting systems and web hosting CPs are installed.

The shortage of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you must make an in-house built web hosting Control Panel that will operate perfectly and to incorporate it within the cloud system, as if it was an inherent part of it. Appropriate examples of custom devised cloud web hosting platforms with custom set up web hosting CPs besides us, at Audiospecific, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision fees

The minimal contribution needed, only for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and $80,000. That's excluding the DDoS tool, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you do know how many cloud web hosting platforms can be discovered out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so blue... and virtually unclouded!