Control your vCluster!

By Joe Gardiner Wednesday, 5th May 2010

vCluster provides clustered hosting, but aims to offer levels of control similar to a dedicated solution. Numerous hosting companies offer managed “cloud” solutions, but they are often over managed, not providing the user with the level of control they require.

During the development process we strived to provide as many control and access options as possible without compromising security or moving too far from managed hosting.

Let’s have a look at the features we offer to achieve this balance between dedicated levels of control and the reliability and performance of cloud or clustered hosting.

SSH access

We have combined the control of SSH access with many clients such as svn, rsync and git, making the installation of applications like WordPress fast and simple, and providing a powerful platform for php developers.

Cron jobs

Cron jobs are enabled on every vCluster, allowing you to run your own backups to any location,  soon you you will be able to use our backup service, mirroring all our stored data to another cloud.

PhpMyadmin

Every vCluster has phpMyadmin installed for database management. Control your DB in an ssh command line, or use the user friendly phpMyadmin interface. It offers support for the majority of MySQL functions, and allows data export to CSV, SQL, XML etc, as many times as you like.

We’re currently working on making database logs available and will be allowing access to them in the CatN control panel soon.

All elements of our CatN platform have been separated, each system is hosted on a separate layer. Database servers are separate from access servers, and static content servers, removing single points of failure and ensuring your web site is not being served by, and is dependant on, a single server. The separation of a heavily monitored server logging all access ensures security, without effecting the performance of our static and dynamic content servers.

This separation adds stability to our platform. If one server in a layer does fail, we simply replace the node and restore service to previous levels. There is no drop in performance, and no critical fail of your entire site.

Breaking down the functions of the platform also increases performance. Essentially each layer of servers is one huge dedicated box made up of numerous servers, each hosting your site, performing the single task allocated. No resources are wasted, and servers aren’t performing numerous functions simultaneously.

Take a look at our vCluster. Enjoy total control and for a short time only sign up for free. Get in quickly before we deploy our new billing system, and find out for yourself!

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