Cpanel Clustered DNS (DNSOnly)
Jun 27, 2008
Thew initial setup process for my future web hosting company will require a redundant dns setup. I was thinking of having two servers from softlayer (one on the east coast and the other on the west coast) being used as the dns servers (ns1.mydomain.com & ns2.mydomain.com). With one other server for handling the shared accounts, of course adding more servers (as needed) to the cluster in the future. Just wondering if this is the best possible way to setup for having only two name servers (with redundancy) for all shared account servers with my fleet. As well, I was thinking a dns only server wouldn't need to be that powerful, but I would like to be prepared in advance if you feel a strong server would be needed to handle the loads for all the shared accounts on many servers.
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Jun 9, 2008
I have some question regards configuring a cPanel DNSonly
server. What I have done so far is that I have a VPS in an other DC, in an other country then were my servers are. cPanel DNSonly is installed and right now I am wondering have I done it all in a proper/correct way and how can I test it to see if it will work without bringing server down of course :-)
I made all servers in the cluster on the DNSonly server the DNS role to Standalone, is that ok, and if not why???
Will the DNSonly server then operate as the backup? On the dedicated server side I added it in the cluster and told it to synchronise changes. So I assume the dedicated server will send changes to the DNSonly server, is that correct?
If I make all servers on the DNSonly (VPS) instead of Standalone to status: Synchronize changes, will all servers get from each other as will in that cluster all the zonefiles?
Sorry, I am a bit in the dark with this :-)
Can I change the second name server on each dedicated server to point to the main IP of the DNSonly server? the VPS main IP.
What can I do to test it for correct working?
Is it a good thing to have a second VPs geographic other side of world to do the same with, will that help in more reliable dns and even faster to find websites for my customers?
The latest cPanel DNSonly version doesn't allow me to view the CSF firewall to display, It is working, but nothing to configure from the WHM, I can of course set the firewall specific rules, but one of the VPS hosters recommend to run without firewall as he said nothing to be worried about? Any advice in this? is that true?
is cPanel DNSonly a good solution for a redundant DNS? Are there any other easier options for a cPanel/WHM based config?
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Sep 7, 2007
let's say I have 2 vps (ns1.myhost.xxx and ns2.myhost.xxx) running dnsonly cpanel and 2 dedi server running cpanel (srv1.myhost.xxx and srv2.myhost.xxx).
is it possible to have dns server only on the vps?
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Aug 17, 2008
It does not seem like it does it out of the box.
Any way to add a /24 to the DNS cluster (cPanel DNSonly) for reverse DNS?
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Jul 22, 2008
I have a wordpress based website that is currently doing about 500,000 uniques a month and 5gb a day. It uses the wordpress module for php caching but it is still pretty damn heavy on the CPU. I am looking for a VPS, preferably one in a clustered type of environment so that I don't need to see them reboot the (single) physical server, or be down for physical maintenance of any kind.
Also this website looks like it will continue to grow pretty fast, so a place that can handle this kind of growth would be a must.
Linux is definately preferred.
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Aug 17, 2007
Anybody know's about any offerings of clustered VPS in Germany.
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Jun 26, 2007
I've narrowed down my VPS search to one of these providers.
SolarVPS.
JupiterLX
832MB Total SLM RAM
30gb storage
600gb bandwidth
with cpanel
100Mbit uplink
fully managed
not sure about the datacentre, the site says Euroconnex
around £45 per month
or
Clustered.net
512 RAM
512 swap RAM
Server has 2 x quad-core Intel Xeon "Clovertown" @ 2.33Ghz (18.64Ghz)
Max of 15 servers per node
25gb storage
300gb bandwidth
with cpanel
1Gbps uplink
1 hour replacement
fully managed
Looks like the datacentre is redbus interhouse in UK
£55 per month
Which is going to be the better quality provider? Clustered offer a 100% uptime guarantee, and for every hour a server is down they refund you a days hosting.
Clustered seem to offer tape backups? solarvps offer off-site hosting, which might come in handy as well.
I searched the forum for clustered.net, but didnt find many reviews.
From my first impressions I think clustered seem to be my best bet, although I will get less in the way of storage and bandwidth, I feel there website makes me think I'll get a better quality service. There website talks about how redundant everything is. Hopefully people can backup what I'm thinking.
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Apr 9, 2008
Does anyone know of a good reliable and redundant method of organizing clustered storage? I know that IBM has GPFS - has anyone actually used it? Do they charge a crap load for it?
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Jul 9, 2008
I've switched my VPS to clustered.net about 6 months ago and I thought I'll just share a few of my experiences.
Clustered.net has their servers in London (somewhere in Canary Wharf, I've forgotten the name of the datacentre). I signed up for their smallest VPS available with 512MB/25GB/450GB.
Connections speeds to the UK and Europe are great, as far as I can see US is no problem either. I'm in the UK and most of the traffic is from the UK, so I wanted a UK provider.
I've got a 20M cable line at home and the server is always able to give me the full 20meg. I'd say perfect. I don't have any really heavy traffic sites, though. I've got a few sites on there, but mostly wanted my own spam solution and personal server for data-transfer etc.
Not only the speed is pretty good, the server has been up and running pretty much all the time, almost no downtimes at all. Really solid performance and reliability. Once we had a outage time of a few minutes and I got money off my next bill.
They offer cpanel, which I really wanted to have. We all know that Cpanel offers great versatility, and ASSP as spam solution is fantastic. Cpanel cost a fiver more per month.
Their website is a bit wonky, which shouldn't put you off - the support is awesome! I've done stuff like locking myself out of the VPS (set the firewall a bit too tight) and I've always had a helpful reply to my query within 10 minutes. Really helpful and quick.
Their support is truly outstanding.
I've been with Interhost before and it's a difference like day and night. At Interhost I got virtually no support at all, clustered.net always helpful, always quick. Interhost was unstable and poor speeds - clustered.net is the opposite.
Their services are not exactly at the lower end of the cost scale, but if you're looking for a reliable, fast VPS in Europe with excellent service, I can only recommend them.
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Apr 10, 2008
I currently am in the process of building an online shop, so far we have about 200,000 products in the database to when running a search its taking up to 10 seconds to display the results which is not good enough. The setup at the moment is a cpanel vps with zipservers, 512mb ram.
Given this i have started looking for new hosting for the site which is built however it cannot be launched until we have a good server. We already have 150,000 adwrods adverts set up on pause ready to go so the project is needing to move fast.
Currently pondering between
1) a 1gb dedicated server with cpanel
2) Netfirms clustered hosting which they claim is more powerful than dedicated
at the moment i am tempted to go for the Netfirms hosting as i have used them for other projects in the past and seem to get on ok with them. They claim that when i make a database it will be servered by several sql servers which will make things much faster than if i went for the dedicated set up.
Does anyone have experience of clustered hosting and is it better than dedciated?
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Dec 18, 2008
we are based in UK, I found Innohosting and Clustered.net to be good.
Can you please recommend which company is best?
if you know any better VPS companies than these and are UK based please recommend.
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Mar 10, 2007
I am evaluating XEN hosts and was wondering if anyone has had experience with Clustered.net (UK). Their name makes it hard to search (too many false matches) and the only posts I found were in the benchmark section.
I have selected a VZ host after days of research but may need XEN for some of my other clients. (I personally prefer XEN technology for my type of applications). I am familier with serveraxis and many others (some of which cannot provide me with more than 1 or 2 IPs per server or are sold out).
clustered.net sounds interesting. They have fall-back to static pages, support backup DNS (via bind so not limited to web pages) and SMPT (the only provider I know of that does). I am NOT a panel kind of guy so not offering Cpanel or Plex is fine.
This has been gruling research but well worth it. Thanks to all who post and answer on this forum, this site is a treasure trove of knowledge!
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Jul 24, 2008
I have 5 domains, searching for clustered shared windows hosting. I prefer UK based, but If you know good provider in US, I want to learn it.
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Dec 14, 2008
Who are the best at load balancing and clustering to deliver 100% uptime for a website?
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May 8, 2008
I just purchased a site yesterday that uses runs Drupal and uses 75 gigs bandwidth a month and gets around 3800 visitors a day.
Was looking for something that could handle this type of traffic without spending a fortune on a dedicated.
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May 5, 2008
Do you know anyone who offers clustered hosting in Europe?
I need to be in Europe due to speed
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May 14, 2008
Every time I see more companies choose to offer clustered hosting, but what is really necessary to be able to offer this service?
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