Definition of Cloud Hosting
Essentially, the genuine cloud hosting solution serves various web hosting services such as disk space, electronic mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, Control Panel, backup, etc., on independent hosts of high-end servers. Each single service pack creates a cluster. All the hosting servers in a cluster are devoted to serving only the specific service and nothing apart from it. They will all operate as one server, sharing the service's load in almost equivalent proportions. If there is a genuine cloud hosting service, there should be: a data storage 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 different service clusters will make the so-called cloud website hosting platform.
The big cloud web hosting fraud. Quite common now.
There is so much misunderstanding going around about cloud hosting at present. As you can perceive, cloud hosting does not only sound perplexing, but in fact it is extremely perplexing. Most of the people know nothing about what cloud hosting is. On the wings of this popular ignorance, the "cloud website hosting traders" speculate intensely, just to get hold of the client and his/her five dollars per month. What a disgrace! An immense shame. This is owing to the fact that in the website hosting business niche there are no ordinances whatsoever. The domain name industry has ICANN. The web hosting industry has no such self-controlling organization. This is the reason why the hosting merchants speculate and tell lies openly (very bluntly, as a matter of fact) to their customers. Mainly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's discover how much cloud web hosting they actually can offer.
The truth about the cPanel-based "cloud" web hosting wholesalers
If a cPanel-based web hosting retailer has a cloud web hosting solution at hand, which is very unlikely, many hosting servers have to be obtained. Which is also not inexpensive. We will return to that at the end of this article. But before we do, let's find out what the cloud problems are. So, it's quite unbelievable for a cPanel web hosting firm to keep the cloud web hosting system at hand, for fabricating one demands years. Even when time and the provision of an experienced staff are not a predicament, plenty of money has to be invested too. Mountains of cash. In addition, cPanel is not open source. That's a great disadvantage.
The lack of open source cloud hosting platforms
There are no open source cloud hosting systems. There are no open source web hosting Control Panel user interfaces (running with the cloud website hosting solution) either. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting platform at hand, in the first place you have to construct one. In-house. Second of all, you have to fabricate the website hosting Control Panel too.
One server-based website hosting Control Panels
Popular website hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are manufactured to function on one server only. All website hosting services (storage space, mail, FTP, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, etc.) are being served simultaneously on a single web server where these particular single-server website hosting systems and CPs are installed.
The lack of open source web hosting CPs
So, you must fabricate a custom web hosting Control Panel that will operate perfectly and to accommodate it within the cloud system, as if it was an indelible part of it. Proper instances of in-house invented cloud web hosting systems with custom built web hosting CPs besides us, at Adalike, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.
Cloud hosting hardware provision fares
The minimum investment demanded, just for the cloud hosting hardware provision, is equivalent to somewhere between 60,000 dollars and 80,000 dollars. That's omitting the DDoS appliance, which is another 15-20,000 dollars. Now you do know how many cloud hosting solutions can be encountered out there... and, in particular, why the web hosting sky is so blue... and virtually cloudless!
| Economy | Regular | Deluxe | Ultimate |
| Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage |
| Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth |
| 1 website hosted | 5 websites hosted | Unlimited websites hosted | Unlimited websites hosted |
| 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial |
| $4.42 / month | $5.33 / month | $9.50 / month | $13.33 / month |