Server Pools

[cpanelbox]

I'm a bit concerned regarding enkompass scalability when using remote storage.

The way I see it, Enkompass should support creating pools of web servers each with their own storage point.

This way it's really scalable as you add, let's say, 4 or 5 web servers to the same pool and assign a shared remote storage to them.

Then, when it fills up, you close that pool and create another one of 4 or 5 web servers and assign another shared storage to them.

There are many advantages to this approach specially:
- Scalability
- Maintenance
- Performance

Sites failover would only be possible inside the same pool but even I see this as a benefit.

In a 50.000 user scenario, considering you put 500 users per server and each user uses 2GB average, without the pool feature you would need 100 web servers sharing the same 100TB storage with a over exaggerated failover farm and each domain would also have 100 A record entries for each of the webservers.

With the pool feature, you would have the same 100 web servers, but split in smaller farms of 5 servers each with a shared storage of 5TB per farm where each domain would have at max 5 A records in their DNS.

Update:

Anyway, I just got an update from Cpanel in which they're planning to introduce later on multiple farms (pools as I described it).

[cPanelEric]

Howdy,

We were talking in email, but this is good too when other people have questions. Right now Enkompass allows you to setup sites in one of three ways:

Dedicated - one site per ip

Shared - many sites on one ip

* - many sites on many ips

by default Enkompass wants to use the * address. This is that pool of servers you spoke of. Right now we only support one pool of servers, but expect that to change soon.

[sutki72]

I really like to use Enkompass! I wish you good luck and prosperity.

[RisenAngel]

So if I have say 7 IP addresses allocated to me, but only 1 is tagged to a server. Will my system slow down if I add all 7 of those IP addresses to the server pool? If I'm following right that means that enkompass is looking for 7 more systems assigned to those IPs?

[cPanelEric]

Howdy,

When I last posted in this thread we were sending one config to each server, now we create a custom config to each of the server that only shows the needs of that server.

Sure adding 7 IP's to a server will make it slower on create account because it's doing 7 times the work when creating DNS entries. It could be making 7 binding entries in the IIS configuration. (In the case of * it's just one BTW) All of this happens in the background not while you are waiting.

If you have any specific questions please feel free to email or PM me.

Thanks!

[SoftDux]

how is this coming along? I'm also interested in using shared storage on our Windows servers