Cloud Web Hosting Definition

In general, the genuine cloud hosting platform serves different website hosting services such as web space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, etc., on separate stacks of leading edge web servers. Each specific service set constitutes a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the given service and nothing apart from it. They will all function as one server, sharing out the service's load in nearly the same proportions. If there is an authentic cloud hosting service, there should be: a disk space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol 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 separate service clusters will construct the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The substantial cloud web hosting trick. Very popular nowadays.

There is so much confusion going around about cloud web hosting at present. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only seem complicated, but in fact it is extremely perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. Based on this popular ignorance, the "cloud hosting merchandisers" speculate intensely, just to secure the customer and his/her 5 dollars a month. What a shame! A great shame. This is due to the fact that in the web hosting business niche there are no ordinances at all. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such administrative institution. That is why the web hosting providers speculate and tell lies blatantly (quite bluntly, actually) to their clients. Notably the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's find out how much cloud web hosting they actually can furnish.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting vendors

If a cPanel-based website hosting corporation has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is very unbelievable, a lot of hosting servers have to be purchased. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that towards the end of this story. First, let's explore what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel hosting company to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, because constructing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of expert personnel are not an issue, lots of money has to be invested as well. Mountains of money. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a huge predicament.

The lack of open source cloud hosting systems

There are no open source cloud web hosting systems. There are no open source website hosting CP tools (working with the cloud website hosting platform) as well. So, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, first you must build one. In-house. In the second place, you have to set up the web hosting CP too.

Single server-based website hosting CPs

Modern web hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to operate on one single server solely. All web hosting services (disk space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served at the very same time on one single server where these specific one-server web hosting systems and web hosting CPs are set up.

The deficiency of open source hosting Control Panels

So, you have to set up an in-house built hosting CP that will work perfectly and to accommodate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an ingrained part of it. Proper instances of custom manufactured cloud web hosting systems with in-house created website hosting Control Panels besides us, at Delva Hosting, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision prices

The smallest investment demanded, just for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, equals somewhere between $60,000 USD and eighty thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS tool, which is another $15-20,000. Now you realize how many cloud hosting systems can be found out there... and, above all, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and practically cloudless!