What is Cloud Hosting?

Essentially, the genuine cloud web hosting platform serves separate website hosting services like disk storage, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, hosting CP, backup, etc., on individual sets of high-end web servers. Each single service group constitutes a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving exclusively the particular service and nothing beside it. They will all operate as one server, sharing out the service's load in nearly equivalent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud web hosting service, there has to be: a web space cluster, an electronic mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a web hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these independent service clusters will create the so-called cloud hosting platform.

The gigantic cloud web hosting fraud. Quite modern at the moment.

There is so much misunderstanding circulating around about cloud web hosting these days. As you can see, cloud web hosting does not only sound perplexing, but actually it is intensely complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud web hosting is. Based on this universal unawareness, the "cloud web hosting corporations" speculate fervently, just to secure the customer and his/her five dollars a month. What a disgrace! An enormous disgrace. This is because in the website hosting business there are no norms whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such regulative body. That is why the hosting vendors speculate and lie blatantly (quite directly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's see how much cloud hosting they in reality can provide.

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

If a cPanel-based web hosting corporation has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is quite unbelievable, lots of servers have to be paid for. Which is also not cheap. We will return to that at the end of this story. First off, let's find out what the cloud problems are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting provider to keep the cloud hosting system at hand, owing to the fact that constructing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of a highly qualified team are not an issue, loads of cash must be invested as well. Tons of cash. What's more, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous drawback.

The shortage of open source cloud web hosting platforms

There are no open source cloud website hosting solutions. There aren't any open source website hosting CP user interfaces (running with the cloud web hosting platform) as well. Therefore, to have a cloud web hosting system at hand, first of all you must construct one. In-house. In the second place, you must set up the web hosting CP too.

Single server-based hosting Control Panels

Modern hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are manufactured to work on one server solely. All web hosting services (storage space, electronic mail, FTP, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served concurrently on one single server where these particular one-server hosting systems and website hosting CPs are set up.

The lack of open source website hosting CPs

So, you have to construct an in-house built CP that will function impeccably and to incorporate it within the cloud platform, as if it was an inbuilt constituent of it. Suitable examples of in-house devised cloud website hosting systems with custom built website hosting Control Panels besides us, at gulfnetlink, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud web hosting hardware provision charges

The minimum contribution demanded, just for the cloud web hosting hardware equipment, equals somewhere between sixty thousand dollars and 80,000 USD. That's omitting the DDoS mechanism, which is another 15-20 thousand dollars. Now you are well aware of how many cloud web hosting systems can be encountered out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so azure... and practically cloudless!