Definition of Cloud Website Hosting

Actually, the actual cloud hosting platform serves separate website hosting services like disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on autonomous bunches of avant-garde web servers. Each specific service pack generates a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all run as one web server, sharing the service's load in approximately equal proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there must be: a web space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these separate service clusters will compose the so-called cloud hosting system.

The mammoth cloud website hosting fraud. Quite widespread at present.

There is so much speculation circulating around about cloud web hosting now. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only appear perplexing, but actually it is very complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. Based on this popular unawareness, the "cloud hosting wholesalers" speculate strongly, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a disgrace! A huge shame. This is because in the website hosting business niche there are no decrees at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such regulatory body. That is the reason why the web hosting vendors speculate and tell lies blatantly (quite bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's determine how much cloud hosting they in fact can provide.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting distributors

If a cPanel-based web hosting retailer has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very unlikely, lots of web hosting servers have to be acquired. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this review. First off, let's see what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel hosting trader to have the cloud website hosting platform at hand, because building one takes years. Even when time and the provision of proficient personnel are not a problem, lots of money must be spent as well. Piles of money. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's a vast downside.

The deficiency of open source cloud hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting systems. There aren't any open source website hosting Control Panel tools (working with the cloud web hosting platform) either. So, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, in the first place you must build one. In-house. Second of all, you must establish the website hosting CP as well.

One server-based Control Panels

Contemporary Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are set up to run on a single server solely. All website hosting services (data storage, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at one and the same time on a single web server where these respective single-server hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are installed.

The lack of open source hosting CPs

So, you have to devise a custom web hosting Control Panel that will work impeccably and to integrate it within the cloud system, as if it was an inbuilt constituent of it. Suitable instances of in-house invented cloud website hosting solutions with custom made website hosting CPs besides us, at Epacket, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision costs

The minimal contribution needed, just for the cloud hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between $60,000 and 80 thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS appliance, which is another $15-20,000. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting solutions can be discovered out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and practically cloudless!