THE TRUTH ABOUT CLOUD HOSTING

In general, the actual cloud hosting platform serves different hosting services like disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, Control Panel, backup, etc. on separate groups of very powerful servers. Each separate service group forms a cluster. All the servers in a cluster are dedicated to serving only the given service and nothing else. They will all work as one server, sharing the service's load in almost equal proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there would be: a disk storage cluster, a 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 different service clusters will form the so-called cloud hosting platform.

The huge cloud hosting fraud. Very modern today.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud hosting today. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only sound complicated, but in reality it is extremely complicated. The majority of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. Based on this widespread ignorance, the "cloud web hosting providers" speculate strongly, just to secure the client and his/her five bucks a month. Shame. Big shame. This is because in the hosting industry there are no regulations at all. The domain industry has ICANN. The hosting industry has no such self-regulative organization. This is why the web hosting companies speculate and lie openly (very directly, actually) to their customers. Especially the cPanel-based "cloud hosting providers". Let's see how much "cloud hosting" they actually can offer.

The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" hosting companies

If a cPanel-based hosting company has a cloud hosting platform at hand, which is very unlikely, many servers have to be purchased. Which is also not cheap. We will get back to that at the end of this article. First, let's see what the cloud problems are. So, it's very unlikely for a cPanel hosting company to have the cloud hosting system at hand, because building one takes years. Even when time and the provision of highly qualified staff are not a problem, a lot of money has to be invested too. Tons of money. Plus, cPanel is not open source. That's an enormous problem.

The lack of open source cloud hosting platforms

There are no open source cloud hosting solutions. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel tools (working with the cloud hosting platform) either. So, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, first you have to build one. In-house. Secondly, you have to build the web hosting Control Panel as well.

One server-based hosting Control Panels

Today's popular Control Panels like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are made to work on a single server only. All hosting services (disk storage, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, Control Panel, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on a single server where these respective one-server hosting platforms and Control Panels are installed.

The lack of open source hosting Control Panels

So, you have to build a custom web hosting Control Panel that will work flawlessly and to integrate it within the cloud platform, as if it was a natural part of it. Good examples of in-house built cloud hosting platforms with custom built hosting Control Panels are: Media Temple, FreeHostia, ResellersPanel, Lonex and NTC Hosting.

Cloud hosting hardware equipment costs

The minimum investment required, only for the cloud hosting hardware equipment, amounts to somewhere between $60,000 and $80,000 USD. That's excluding the DDoS device, which is another $15-20,000 USD. Now you do know how many cloud hosting systems can be found out there... and, above all, why the hosting sky is so blue... and almost cloudless!