What Exactly is Cloud Web Hosting?

Essentially, the actual cloud hosting platform serves different website hosting services such as web space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, etc., on individual groups of very advanced web servers. Each different service group makes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the specific service and nothing beside it. They will all operate as one single web server, sharing the service's load in practically equivalent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there has to be: a disk space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these independent service clusters will form the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The immense cloud website hosting hoax. Very common today.

There is so much speculation revolving around about cloud hosting at present. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only appear perplexing, but in fact it is very perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this universal ignorance, the "cloud web hosting merchandisers" speculate eagerly, just to get hold of the client and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a shame! A vast shame. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no bylaws whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such legislative institution. That is the reason why the hosting providers speculate and lie blatantly (very directly, in fact) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's uncover how much cloud web hosting they in reality can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting firm has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is quite unlikely, numerous hosting servers have to be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this story. First, let's find out what the cloud problems are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel web hosting vendor to have the cloud website hosting platform at hand, because creating one requires years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient team are not an issue, plenty of cash has to be spent too. Tons of money. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense downside.

The lack of open source cloud hosting systems

There are no open source cloud hosting platforms. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel instruments (running with the cloud website hosting system) as well. So, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, in the first place you have to establish one. In-house. In the second place, you must devise the web hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based website hosting Control Panels

Today's popular web hosting CPs such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to run on one single web server exclusively. All web hosting services (data storage, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the very same time on one single server where these particular one-server hosting platforms and website hosting CPs are set up.

The shortage of open source web hosting CPs

So, you must develop a custom web hosting Control Panel that will operate perfectly and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained constituent of it. Good instances of custom invented cloud web hosting systems with custom set up website hosting Control Panels besides us, at Lirix, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment fees

The minimum investment demanded, just for the cloud hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between $60,000 and eighty thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS appliance, which is another fifteen-twenty thousand dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting platforms can be detected out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so azure... and practically unclouded!