Cloud Hosting Explanation

Essentially, the authentic cloud hosting solution serves individual hosting services such as disk space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, etc., on separate groups of top-quality servers. Each different service set constitutes a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the given service and nothing aside from it. They will all function as one single server, sharing the service's load in nearly identical proportions. If there is an authentic cloud hosting service, there should be: a web space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a CP cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these independent service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The gigantic cloud web hosting swindle. Quite widespread at the moment.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud web hosting now. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only sound complicated, but actually it is very complicated. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this popular ignorance, the "cloud website hosting vendors" speculate fervently, just to secure the customer and his/her five bucks a month. What a shame! A big shame. This is because in the website hosting business there are no enactments whatsoever. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The hosting industry has no such administrative organization. That is the reason why the hosting retailers speculate and lie openly (quite directly, actually) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's discover how much cloud hosting they actually can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting trader has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is very unbelievable, many web hosting servers must be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this article. First off, let's find out what the cloud problems are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel web hosting distributor to have the cloud hosting platform at hand, owing to the fact that establishing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of competent personnel are not an issue, lots of cash must be invested as well. Mountains of cash. Moreover, cPanel is not open source. That's a big inconvenience.

The absence of open source cloud hosting solutions

There are no open source cloud website hosting environments. There are no open source website hosting Control Panel GUIs (running with the cloud website hosting system) either. So, to have a cloud hosting system at hand, first of all you must 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

Contemporary web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are made to function on one single server solely. All web hosting services (disk space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served concurrently on one web server where these particular single-server website hosting platforms and website hosting Control Panels are set up.

The shortage of open source Control Panels

So, you must make a custom web hosting Control Panel that will function perfectly and to include it within the cloud system, as if it was an inbuilt constituent of it. Proper examples of custom built cloud web hosting systems with custom constructed Control Panels besides us, at Live Studios 24, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment fares

The minimal contribution wanted, only for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, is equivalent to somewhere between 60,000 dollars and eighty thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another 15-20,000 USD. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting systems can be encountered out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so blue... and virtually cloudless!