What Exactly is Cloud Hosting?

In general, the genuine cloud hosting solution serves distinct hosting services like storage space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, etc., on individual stacks of top-notch web servers. Each particular service group constitutes a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing aside from it. They will all function as one single server, sharing the service's load in nearly equivalent proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there would be: a disk space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these different service clusters will build the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The mammoth cloud web hosting trick. Quite popular today.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud web hosting now. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only appear complicated, but in fact it is extremely complicated. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this widely spread ignorance, the "cloud hosting providers" speculate strongly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a disgrace! An immense shame. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no decrees at all. The domain industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such supervising organization. That is why the hosting wholesalers speculate and tell lies overtly (quite bluntly, in fact) to their customers. Notably the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud hosting they in reality can offer.

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

If a cPanel-based hosting merchandiser has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is quite unbelievable, lots of web servers have to be secured. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this story. First off, let's find out what the cloud troubles are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel hosting merchant to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, in that establishing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of an expert team are not an issue, plenty of money has to be spent as well. Stacks of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a great inconvenience.

The shortage of open source cloud hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting environments. There are no open source web hosting CP instruments (working with the cloud web hosting system) either. Hence, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, in the first place you must build one. In-house. In the second place, you have to create the CP as well.

Single server-based web hosting CPs

Today's popular web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are manufactured to work on one single server exclusively. All web hosting services (disk space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at the very same time on a single server where these particular single-server web hosting platforms and website hosting Control Panels are installed.

The shortage of open source web hosting Control Panels

So, you must devise an in-house built web hosting CP that will operate impeccably and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible part of it. Good examples of custom created cloud hosting platforms with in-house devised web hosting CPs besides us, at TronLite Web Services, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision costs

The minimal investment wanted, only for the cloud hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS device, which is another fifteen-twenty thousand dollars. Now you do know how many cloud hosting solutions can be chanced on out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and almost unclouded!