What Exactly is Cloud Website Hosting?

Essentially, the real cloud website hosting solution serves individual web hosting services such as data storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on different groups of very powerful web servers. Each particular service pack makes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the particular service and nothing aside from it. They will all function as one web server, sharing out the service's load in nearly the same proportions. If there is a real cloud website hosting service, there should be: a disk storage cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these individual service clusters will produce the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The great cloud web hosting fraud. Very modern these days.

There is so much misunderstanding revolving around about cloud hosting today. As you can perceive, cloud website hosting does not only seem perplexing, but actually it is greatly perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud website hosting is. Based on this widely spread unawareness, the "cloud web hosting merchandisers" speculate fervently, just to get hold of the client and his/her five dollars per month. What a disgrace! A great shame. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting business there are no principles whatsoever. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such legislative organization. That is why the web hosting traders speculate and lie openly (quite bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud web hosting they in reality can furnish.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting firm has a cloud hosting system at hand, which is quite improbable, many web servers have to be ensured. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this review. First off, let's explore what the cloud problems are. So, it's very unbelievable for a cPanel hosting distributor to have the cloud web hosting system at hand, as creating one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified staff are not a predicament, a lot of money must be invested too. Mountains of money. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense defect.

The deficiency of open source cloud website hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud web hosting environments. There are no open source web hosting CP devices (functioning with the cloud website hosting system) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud website hosting system at hand, first of all you have to create one. In-house. In the second place, you have to make the website hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based website hosting Control Panels

Modern web hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to function on one web server only. All web hosting services (data storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at the same time on one web server where these respective one-server web hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are installed.

The deficiency of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you have to create a custom hosting CP that will run unproblematically and to add it within the cloud system, as if it was a natural component of it. Proper examples of in-house made cloud web hosting systems with in-house manufactured CPs besides us, at Quintiva, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud website hosting hardware equipment rates

The minimum investment demanded, only for the cloud website hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting systems can be chanced on out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and practically cloudless!