What is Cloud Web Hosting?

In general, the genuine cloud web hosting platform serves distinct web hosting services like web space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, etc., on different stacks of top-notch web servers. Each different service pack forms a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the given service and nothing beside it. They will all operate as one web server, sharing the service's load in nearly equal proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there should be: a web space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a website hosting CP cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these separate service clusters will construct the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The immense cloud website hosting swindle. Quite common nowadays.

There is so much speculation revolving around about cloud hosting these days. As you can perceive, cloud web hosting does not only seem perplexing, but actually it is intensely perplexing. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. Based on this common unawareness, the "cloud web hosting merchandisers" speculate fiercely, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 bucks a month. What a shame! A vast shame. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting industry there are no regulations whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such supervising institution. That is the reason why the hosting wholesalers speculate and tell lies blatantly (quite directly, actually) to their clients. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's determine how much cloud hosting they indeed can provide.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting corporation has a cloud hosting solution at hand, which is quite unbelievable, multiple servers must be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this story. First off, let's see what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting provider to keep the cloud website hosting platform at hand, due to the fact that making one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a professional team are not a predicament, loads of cash has to be spent too. Mountains of money. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's a great obstacle.

The absence of open source cloud web hosting systems

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting systems. There aren't any open source web hosting CP GUIs (operating with the cloud web hosting platform) either. So, to have a cloud web hosting system at hand, in the first place you must set up one. In-house. In the second place, you must set up the website hosting CP as well.

One server-based hosting Control Panels

Popular website hosting Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are invented to function on a single server solely. All website hosting services (web space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting Control Panel, backup, and so on) are being served concurrently on one server where these given one-server website hosting platforms and web hosting CPs are installed.

The deficiency of open source Control Panels

So, you have to fabricate a custom web hosting Control Panel that will function flawlessly and to integrate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible component of it. Proper examples of custom devised cloud web hosting platforms with custom developed Control Panels besides us, at .estate, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision prices

The minimum contribution needed, just for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you realize how many cloud web hosting solutions can be found out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so blue... and nearly cloudless!