I went into hostingcon snarking on “the cloud”. Everything nowadays is cloud and from what I can tell, everything on the Internet is pretty much cloud. If you can contain it and then push a button or program it to expand, slap a cloud title on that puppy and ride that buzzword into profits.
At least it isn’t just me with the “WTF”.
Like my ultimately superior and judgmental attitude about “unlimited” (You never see anyone advertising 50K Inodes as a feature in bold, do you?), I had an ultimately superior and judgmental attitude about cloud. Having an entire con about the cloud gave me ample opportunity for ample superiority and snark. After all, this technology has ultimately been around a while – load balancing… buttons to make things bigger… 
I didn’t expect to learn much from HostingCon and I was avoiding everything with the word cloud in it like the plague. The only thing I didn’t avoid was CloudLinux, and that was only because my husband wanted swag from CloudLinux. Did he know what it was? No. But it had both Cloud and Linux in the name, so he wanted the swag.
I was so amazed at what they were saying I actually forgot to get any CloudLinux swag.
Sorry, hon.
What it boiled down to is that they could put my clients in their own individual corners, give them the toys they paid for, and if any other brutish brat tried to take everyone else’s toys, they wouldn’t get them, hence preventing a massive toddler technological upheaval as all the toys simultaneously combusted.
Honestly, I thought it was bullshit, but it nagged at me. Maybe it didn’t do everything they said, but even if it did a quarter of it, I should look at it, no?
After taking a few days to do all the background I could do to puncture the marketing bubble, I went ahead and installed it on one of my servers, and the difference is flatly astounding. Thomas, my staffer, pronounced himself “gobsmacked”. I haven’t been this excited about a technological innovation in my business since I found out what a CLI was in… um, a long time ago.
I may be one hell of a hard sell, but when something rocks, I’ll eat my snark, and I should not have snarked at the cloud.
Gobsmacked.
I swear its running. This site is actually on Espeon. It’s up. Amazing, eh?
Tags: cloudlinux
I don't know the tech side of this, but I can sure read a graph. That's astonishing.
Thanks a lot — we try hard to deliver, and I believe we deliver pretty much what we say. Though with load averages — it is not that good.
CloudLinux, due to its custom scheduler/LVE doesn't account load averages correctly. It still counts them, but it cannot correctly account for processes inside LVE.
So, there is still load on the server — though spikes should be much smaller, and they shouldn't affect other customers at all.
Good way to judge if it is working — your server should be more responsive to SSH (if it wasn't that responsive before).
Also, monitor user/system/idle CPU as well as iowait. They are a good indicators of how busy system is. They can give you better understanding if you can add more accounts on the server.
I think this is an absolute game changer for the shared hosting industry – you've done a truly astounding job. We're going to be rethinking our boxes, trading in older ones for more powerful ones and consolidating – the cost savings, energy savings, is astounding me as I run the numbers.
Not only is ssh more responsive, our clients have commented the server is more responsive as well and their pages load a smidge faster. This is a much more advanced solution than suspending people for averages.
My hat is off to you. I am astoundingly impressed.