Comments on: Discussion: Cluster Hosting

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:14:38 +0000

What about using RAID-1 for each drive, but having the other drive be in a different physical server, so if one of the server’s goes down in the cluster, that data can still be accessed from the server that has the duplicate drive in it?

By: blogadmin

blogadmin — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:17:27 +0000

We have 2 perfectly working clusters as well but they would not work well in a shared hosting enviroment.

Imagine if you had a system like Netfirms setup and one portion of your system fails. Instead of having 100 or so customers to support on one server you now have all of your customers requesting support once.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:05:43 +0000

We were talking about the technology though. :P Google just happens to be a perfect example of a perfectly fine cluster.

The advantages seem to out-way the disadvantages, though.

By: blogadmin

blogadmin — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:19:07 +0000

I didn’t realize we were talking about search engines. :P

I know in the shared hosting environment clusters are still beta for most companies.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:16:48 +0000

It’s not really beta technology, Google does it, and they have very little downtime. Then again, they have 100′s of Computer Engineers working on it. :P

Is there software for custering server’s together?

By: blogadmin

blogadmin — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:28:47 +0000

The service from Netfirms (although I have not used it) appears to be something very experimental. Pulling all that together into one would be a nightmare with multiple technical challenges.

I would also question the easy of use of the control panel over these various systems and if each domain would have it’s own control panel if you plan on reselling it.

Netfirms has no public way to see how their servers are doing so I have not be tracking it.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:14:47 +0000

Is what Netfirms is offering under it’s Enterprise label the same thing along this line of thinking? I had been considering it because of the ability to utilize both windows and unix platforms at the same time as a reseller. I wasn’t aware that this was beta technology.

By: blogadmin

blogadmin — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:02:09 +0000

I’m sure they have their own cluster solution with a 1Gig pipe.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:57:58 +0000

I said “seems”. :P

Hey, TechCrunch and other “crunch network” sites are hosted by (mt), so it couldn’t be that bad. The again, they probably have a custom cluster “solution”.

By: blogadmin

blogadmin — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:40:09 +0000

You should subscribe to their feed for a month and then tell me the same thing. Their clusters have lots of problems that people are paying them to beta test.