What In Fact is Cloud Hosting?

Essentially, the real cloud hosting solution serves various web hosting services such as web space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on separate packs of deluxe servers. Each different service group produces a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all perform as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in practically identical proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there should be: a data storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these separate service clusters will generate the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The big cloud website hosting scam. Quite widespread today.

There is so much confusion revolving around about cloud web hosting now. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only seem 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 universal unawareness, the "cloud web hosting vendors" speculate feverishly, just to secure the client and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a shame! A huge disgrace. This is because in the web hosting industry there are no laws whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such regulatory institution. This is why the website hosting merchants speculate and tell lies overtly (very directly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud hosting they actually can supply.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting corporations

If a cPanel-based website hosting supplier has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is very unbelievable, multiple servers must be bought. 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 troubles are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel web hosting vendor to have the cloud website hosting platform at hand, for making one requires years. Even when time and the provision of competent personnel are not a problem, lots of cash must be invested as well. Tons of money. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's a huge inconvenience.

The lack of open source cloud hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting platforms. There aren't any open source hosting Control Panel instruments (running with the cloud web hosting platform) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, first you have to invent one. In-house. Secondly, you have to make the web hosting Control Panel too.

One server-based web hosting Control Panels

Modern web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to run on a single web server solely. All website hosting services (data storage, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at the very same time on one web server where these given single-server web hosting systems and web hosting CPs are installed.

The lack of open source Control Panels

So, you must create an in-house built web hosting CP that will run uncomplicatedly and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inherent constituent of it. Good examples of in-house set up cloud web hosting platforms with in-house made hosting CPs besides us, at Ion Web Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision fares

The smallest investment required, only for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, equals somewhere between $60,000 USD and eighty thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting platforms can be discovered out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and virtually cloudless!