The absolute truth about the cloud web space hosting service
Actually, the actual cloud webspace hosting solution serves individual hosting services like web space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, Control Panel, backup, and so on, on independent stacks of top-quality servers. Each different service group forms a cluster. All the web hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving solely the particular service and nothing aside from it. They will all function as one single web server, sharing out the service's load in almost identical proportions. If there is a real cloud web hosting service, there should be: a web space cluster, a mail cluster, an FTP cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a stats cluster, a Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, etc. All these separate service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud website hosting system.
The gigantic cloud web hosting trick. Quite popular nowadays.
There is so much speculation going around about cloud web hosting at the moment. As you can see,cloud hosting does not only seem perplexing, but actually it is very perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. Based on this widely spread ignorance, the "cloud web space hosting providers" speculate intensely, just to get hold of the customer and his/her 5 bucks per month. What a shame! An immense shame. This is because in the hosting industry niche there are no stipulations whatsoever. The domain industry has ICANN. The webspace hosting industry has no such self-controlling institution. That is why the hosting merchants speculate and lie blatantly (very bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their clients. Especially the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's discover how much cloud hosting they actually can deliver.
The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting merchants
If a cPanel-based web hosting supplier has a cloud website hosting solution at hand, which is quite improbable, plenty of servers have to be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that towards the end of this story. First, let's explore what the cloud complications are. So, it's quite unlikely for a cPanel hosting company to have the cloud web space hosting platform at hand, owing to the fact that making one requires years. Even when time and the provision of professional personnel are not a problem, loads of money must be invested too. Piles of money. Furthermore, cPanel is not open source. That's a great disadvantage.
The shortage of open source cloud web space hosting solutions
There aren't any open source cloud site hosting environments. There are no open source website hosting Control Panel interfaces (functioning with the cloud webspace hosting system) as well. Hence, to have a cloud web page hosting platform at hand, in the first place you have to fabricate one. In-house. In the second place, you must devise the website hosting Control Panel as well.
Single server-based hosting Control Panels
Modern web page hosting Control Panels such as cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are developed to operate on one web server only. All website hosting services (data storage, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web site hosting Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served at the very same time on one single server where these given one-server site hosting systems and web hosting Control Panels are installed.
The absence of open source web page hosting Control Panels
So, you must fabricate a custom web page hosting Control Panel that will run flawlessly and to add it within the cloud platform, as if it was an indelible constituent of it. Proper examples of custom developed cloud website hosting platforms with in-house made web site hosting Control Panels are: Hax Host, NTCHosting, Lonex, Exclusive Hosting, FreeHostia, OpenHost, 50Webs, 100WebSpace, Fateback, MediaTemple and ResellersPanel
Cloud site hosting hardware provision costs
The minimal investment demanded, just for the cloud website hosting hardware provision, amounts to somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80,000 dollars. That's omitting the DDoS appliance, which is another $15-20,000. Now you realize how many cloud website hosting solutions can be found out there... and, in particular, why the hosting sky is so azure... and almost cloudless!