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What Exactly is Cloud Web Hosting?

In general, the genuine cloud web hosting platform serves separate hosting services such as disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on, on independent sets of avant-garde web servers. Each specific service set generates a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the particular service and nothing aside from it. They will all run as one web server, sharing the service's load in approximately equal proportions. If there is a genuine cloud web hosting service, there would be: a web space cluster, an email cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these separate service clusters will build the so-called cloud website hosting platform.

The gigantic cloud hosting scam. Very common at present.

There is so much confusion revolving around about cloud hosting at present. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only sound complicated, but in fact it is highly perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. On the wings of this universal unawareness, the "cloud web hosting suppliers" speculate strongly, just to get hold of the client and his/her five bucks per month. What a shame! A big shame. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no regulations whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such self-regulative body. That is why the website hosting firms speculate and tell lies overtly (very bluntly, in fact) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud hosting they in fact can deliver.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting merchandiser has a cloud website hosting system at hand, which is quite improbable, many servers have to be secured. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this story. But before we do, let's see what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel web hosting firm to keep the cloud website hosting system at hand, in that developing one requires years. Even when time and the provision of an expert team are not a problem, a lot of cash has to be invested as well. Piles of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's an immense obstacle.

The absence of open source cloud web hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting systems. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel instruments (working with the cloud web hosting solution) either. Therefore, to have a cloud web hosting system at hand, first of all you have to invent one. In-house. Secondly, you must build the website hosting CP as well.

Single server-based web hosting CPs

Today's popular website hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to function on one web server solely. All website hosting services (disk storage, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served at the same time on one single web server where these given one-server web hosting systems and website hosting CPs are installed.

The deficiency of open source Control Panels

So, you must build an in-house built web hosting CP that will run perfectly and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural component of it. Suitable instances of custom manufactured cloud website hosting solutions with custom developed hosting CPs besides us, at iHosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision expenses

The smallest investment wanted, just for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between 60,000 USD and $80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you realize how many cloud web hosting systems can be stumbled upon out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so turquoise... and almost unclouded!