multiple servers

[bbennett]

Greetings,

Does cPanel support multiple servers or does everything run on one box? I can’t seem to find any info on how to add servers or delegate services to different servers.

A push in the right direction would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian

[JamesSmith]

Everything is on the same server.

The only services you can (relatively) easily move to separate servers are DNS and MySQL. The MySQL cluster support is quite limited, you’ll find it difficult to use the same server for more than one cPanel server.

If you want to do this for other services (e-mail being the main one I would like moved off into a clustering format) you'll need to do some considerable hacking and bodging to achieve it.

In my opinion it's what cPanel severely lacks, the ability to be scalable.

[bbennett]

Hi James,

Thanks for the information. I’ve been trying to find this info all morning. I’m really surprised to learn that cPanel doesn’t support multiple servers. It has taken me by surprise given the popularity of cPanel hosting.

Thanks again,
Brian

[deathvult]

I agree with James, this is something I actually thought cPanel would be easily adpated.
I hope this issue does get adressed soon, would be a major improvement for my buisness.

Cheerz

[MichaelShanks]

I agree with James, this is something I actually thought cPanel would be easily adpated.
I hope this issue does get adressed soon, would be a major improvement for my buisness.

Cheerz

in theory it is possible to hack this support in, you just end up with multiple cpanel servers one for web/db and others for e-mail, it would take some skin work, and probably some custom code hooking into the cpanel API,

on the webserver linking /etc/localdomains to /etc/remotedomains would solve the issue of e-mail being delivered locally onto the webserver....

basically a few links and a few bodges here and there and you could end up with a clustered cpanel mail solution in under a day, it won't scale though to an enterprise level


cpanel is popular because its easy to use, but it isn't the control panel to use if you want to scale.

[deathvult]

I understand MichaelShanks.

Have you seen TheGridLayer? They are using cPanel, and in LT forums I have read some positives posts about a scalable cPanel. I really look foward to seeing this.
After all, other sistems ALREADY have this working rather fine (or so I am told), and as we all know, scalability is very important in planing , growing and maintaining a good hosting.
Client satisfaction is important for me, and this step in cPanel would be very important for all of us that use cPanel, specially on the long run.
The main problem is, many of us ALREADY have this need today.
So we all turn our eyes to cPanel annoucments, and forum.

I just hope improvements and solutions are implemented soon.

Cheerz