Definition of Cloud Hosting

In general, the authentic cloud hosting solution serves separate hosting services like storage space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, Control Panel, backup, etc., on individual stacks of avant-garde web servers. Each particular service pack constitutes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the given service and nothing apart from it. They will all operate as one single server, sharing the service's load in practically equipollent proportions. If there is an authentic cloud hosting service, there would be: a web space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these different service clusters will render the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The massive cloud hosting trick. Very common now.

There is so much misunderstanding going around about cloud hosting nowadays. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but in reality it is very perplexing. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. Based on this widely spread unawareness, the "cloud website hosting companies" speculate intensely, just to get hold of the customer and his/her five dollars a month. What a disgrace! A big disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the website hosting business niche there are no regulations at all. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such supervising body. This is the reason why the website hosting retailers speculate and lie blatantly (very bluntly, actually) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's ascertain how much cloud hosting they in reality can offer.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" hosting distributors

If a cPanel-based web hosting merchant has a cloud web hosting system at hand, which is quite unlikely, loads of hosting servers have to be paid for. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that towards the end of this article. But before we do, let's see what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting wholesaler to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, as devising one requires years. Even when time and the provision of experienced personnel are not a predicament, lots of money must be invested too. Mountains of money. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous drawback.

The deficiency of open source cloud hosting platforms

There are no open source cloud website hosting environments. There aren't any open source web hosting Control Panel GUIs (running with the cloud website hosting solution) either. So, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, first of all you have to devise one. In-house. In the second place, you have to develop the Control Panel as well.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Today's popular web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are created to operate on one single server solely. All web hosting services (web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at the same time on one single web server where these respective one-server web hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are installed.

The deficiency of open source hosting Control Panels

So, you have to set up an in-house built hosting Control Panel that will operate perfectly and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible component of it. Appropriate examples of custom constructed cloud website hosting systems with in-house constructed web hosting Control Panels besides us, at DLinks Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision prices

The minimum contribution demanded, just for the cloud hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 USD and $80,000. That's excluding the DDoS mechanism, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you realize how many cloud hosting platforms can be chanced on out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and virtually cloudless!