What is Cloud Hosting?

Actually, the real cloud hosting solution serves distinct web hosting services such as disk space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc., on individual stacks of deluxe web servers. Each individual service set produces a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all perform as one single web server, sharing the service's load in almost equipollent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there would be: a data storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these individual service clusters will beget the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The mammoth cloud web hosting fraud. Very widespread at the moment.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud web hosting these days. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only appear perplexing, but in fact it is extremely complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the basis of this common unawareness, the "cloud hosting wholesalers" speculate feverishly, just to get hold of the client and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a shame! A vast disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no stipulations at all. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such self-governing body. This is why the hosting companies speculate and lie openly (quite directly, actually) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's learn how much cloud web hosting they actually can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting retailer has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is quite unlikely, numerous web servers have to be acquired. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this story. First, let's find out what the cloud troubles are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel web hosting firm to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, owing to the fact that constructing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of an expert staff are not a problem, lots of money has to be spent as well. Tons of cash. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's a great disadvantage.

The shortage of open source cloud hosting platforms

There aren't any open source cloud hosting solutions. There are no open source hosting CP user interfaces (functioning with the cloud web hosting solution) as well. Hence, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, in the first place you have to devise one. In-house. Second of all, you must establish the web hosting CP as well.

One server-based web hosting CPs

Contemporary website hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to run on a single web server solely. All web hosting services (disk space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on a single web server where these respective single-server hosting systems and CPs are installed.

The absence of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you have to establish a custom CP that will perform impeccably and to include it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained part of it. Suitable instances of custom manufactured cloud web hosting solutions with in-house devised web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Snap Builder Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment rates

The minimal investment required, just for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and 80,000 dollars. That's excluding the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud hosting platforms can be chanced on out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and almost cloudless!