What Exactly is Cloud Hosting?

Essentially, the actual cloud web hosting solution serves individual hosting services such as web space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, hosting CP, backup, and so on, on independent hosts of very powerful servers. Each individual service set forms a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving solely the given service and nothing beside it. They will all operate as one server, sharing out the service's load in practically the same proportions. If there is an authentic cloud web hosting service, there must be: a storage space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these independent service clusters will create the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

The big cloud web hosting fraud. Quite modern today.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only seem complicated, but actually it is highly complicated. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud web hosting is. On the wings of this universal ignorance, the "cloud web hosting wholesalers" speculate eagerly, just to secure the customer and his/her five dollars per month. What a disgrace! An enormous disgrace. This is because in the website hosting industry niche there are no enactments at all. The domain name industry niche has ICANN. The website hosting industry has no such supervising body. That is why the web hosting firms speculate and tell lies openly (very directly, in fact) to their customers. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud web hosting they in reality can supply.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting firms

If a cPanel-based website hosting corporation has a cloud website hosting platform at hand, which is very improbable, numerous web hosting servers have to be acquired. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that at the end of this review. First, let's find out what the cloud complications are. So, it's very improbable for a cPanel hosting company to have the cloud website hosting system at hand, as setting up one demands years. Even when time and the provision of professional personnel are not a problem, loads of cash has to be invested too. Heaps of money. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a big predicament.

The lack of open source cloud web hosting systems

There are no open source cloud website hosting systems. There aren't any open source CP tools (operating with the cloud web hosting system) as well. So, to have a cloud web hosting solution at hand, first you have to invent one. In-house. Second of all, you must establish the CP too.

One server-based website hosting CPs

Famous web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are constructed to perform on one single web server only. All web hosting services (disk storage, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, CP, backup, and so on) are being served at the very same time on one server where these particular one-server web hosting systems and CPs are installed.

The absence of open source website hosting CPs

So, you have to devise a custom hosting Control Panel that will perform uncomplicatedly and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural component of it. Good instances of custom devised cloud website hosting systems with custom developed website hosting Control Panels besides us, at Red 1 Rebel, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision fees

The smallest investment demanded, only for the cloud web hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between 60,000 USD and $80,000. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you do know how many cloud web hosting platforms can be found out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so blue... and practically unclouded!