What Precisely is Cloud Web Hosting?

Essentially, the actual cloud hosting platform serves individual hosting services like disk space, email, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, website hosting CP, backup, etc., on different bunches of very advanced servers. Each specific service pack produces a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the particular service and nothing aside from it. They will all work as one web server, sharing the service's load in nearly the same proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there should be: a storage 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 autonomous service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud web hosting platform.

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

There is so much confusion revolving around about cloud hosting at present. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only seem complicated, but actually it is excessively complicated. Most of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this widely spread ignorance, the "cloud web hosting corporations" speculate eagerly, just to secure the client and his/her 5 dollars per month. What a disgrace! A great shame. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting industry there are no bylaws at all. The domain industry has ICANN. The website hosting industry niche has no such supervisory organization. This is why the hosting suppliers speculate and lie overtly (very directly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Chiefly the cPanel-based cloud hosting providers. Let's examine how much cloud hosting they indeed can provide.

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

If a cPanel-based website hosting company has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very improbable, numerous web hosting servers have to be secured. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that towards the end of this article. First, let's explore what the cloud problems are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel hosting provider to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, owing to the fact that inventing one takes years. Even when time and the provision of a proficient staff are not a problem, lots of cash has to be spent as well. Mountains of cash. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous downside.

The shortage of open source cloud hosting solutions

There aren't any open source cloud website hosting environments. There aren't any open source website hosting CP user interfaces (running with the cloud web hosting solution) either. So, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, in the first place you must create one. In-house. In the second place, you must make the web hosting Control Panel too.

Single server-based website hosting Control Panels

Modern web hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are set up to work on a single web server solely. All web hosting services (disk space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, website hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served concurrently on a single web server where these specific one-server website hosting platforms and website hosting CPs are installed.

The lack of open source website hosting Control Panels

So, you have to set up an in-house built website hosting CP that will function flawlessly and to integrate it within the cloud system, as if it was a natural part of it. Proper instances of in-house constructed cloud website hosting solutions with in-house devised web hosting Control Panels besides us, at Smart Host Kenya, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision costs

The smallest contribution wanted, only for the cloud hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between 60,000 dollars and 80 thousand dollars. That's omitting the DDoS apparatus, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud hosting solutions can be found out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so azure... and almost unclouded!