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.
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.
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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.
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
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