What Actually is Cloud Hosting?

Essentially, the actual cloud website hosting platform serves individual website hosting services like data storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, etc., on individual sets of deluxe web servers. Each particular service pack creates a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the given service and nothing beside it. They will all perform as one server, sharing the service's load in approximately equal proportions. If there is a genuine cloud website hosting service, there should be: a disk 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, and so on. All these independent service clusters will generate the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The immense cloud hosting scam. Very widespread these days.

There is so much confusion circulating around about cloud web hosting at the moment. As you can see, cloud website hosting does not only sound complicated, but in reality it is intensely complicated. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. Based on this popular ignorance, the "cloud website hosting firms" speculate strongly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a shame! A big disgrace. This is due to the fact that in the website hosting business niche there are no enactments whatsoever. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such self-governing institution. This is the reason why the hosting distributors speculate and lie overtly (quite bluntly, in fact) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud web hosting they actually can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based hosting vendor has a cloud web hosting system at hand, which is very unbelievable, lots of web hosting servers have to be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this review. First, let's examine what the cloud troubles are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel web hosting vendor to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, as establishing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of proficient personnel are not an issue, lots of money has to be spent too. Stacks of money. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense problem.

The lack of open source cloud website hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting platforms. There are no open source web hosting CP instruments (operating with the cloud web hosting system) as well. Hence, to have a cloud website hosting platform at hand, first of all you must set up one. In-house. Second of all, you must make the hosting CP too.

One server-based CPs

Popular web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are intended to work on one web server exclusively. All website hosting services (data storage, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on a single server where these given one-server website hosting platforms and web hosting CPs are set up.

The deficiency of open source website hosting CPs

So, you have to fabricate a custom web hosting Control Panel that will perform impeccably and to integrate it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural component of it. Suitable examples of in-house set up cloud website hosting platforms with in-house developed website hosting CPs besides us, at Tellus Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment expenses

The minimal investment demanded, just for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between 60 thousand dollars and $80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another $15-20,000. Now you are well aware of how many cloud website hosting platforms can be detected out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so azure... and nearly cloudless!