Newbie questions

[cetterra]

Hi there...

I am completely new to CPanel and I have some newbie questions.

Today I have a decentralized provider. I have 3 mail services, one for POP3/IMAP(dovecot) and Auth SMTP (postfix), other two servers for MX (postfix, anti-spam, anti-virus and personal scripts). I have 2 web servers, one windows and other linux) I have a dedicated mysql server for my clients, two dns servers and a NAS storage.

Everything here is integrated into mysql database. I manage everything including and updating database rows. But we don't have a Control Center like CPanel, thats why we are studying CPanel.

After some reading about, I noticed that CPanel manage everything into a single server. It is possible to separe the services into different servers? I saw something about clustering in the docs. How this works?

Is it possible to CPanel to integrate with my running services or I have to start everything from zero?

That DVD Quickinstall already installs CPanel or just the minimum OS for installing the product?

Thanks for your time!

 

[Voltar]

cPanel supports DNS clustering and remote MySQL. The quick install DVD from cPanel installs the minimum needed OS, and after reboot installs cPanel (if I recall correctly).

Separate mail/webservers aren't supported as of yet. There are some posts around the forum about clustering, personally I haven't tried anything other than DNS clustering and remote MySQL once (Don't use it exclusively).

 

[cetterra]

cPanel supports DNS clustering and remote MySQL. The quick install DVD from cPanel installs the minimum needed OS, and after reboot installs cPanel (if I recall correctly).

Separate mail/webservers aren't supported as of yet. There are some posts around the forum about clustering, personally I haven't tried anything other than DNS clustering and remote MySQL once (Don't use it exclusively).

Thanks for the answering.

So, how can I work with a scalable infrastructure?
With this limitations I thought in adopt "Different users on different servers".

Are there any projects on cpanel product to turn it more scalable, by the official developers?

How DNS Clustering works? I need to install CPanel in two servers or just the bind service?

Thanks

 

[thewebhosting]

The DNS cluster will allow all servers to indeed share the common dns zones databases
thus allowing for each to work together.

Here are the steps to configure DNS clustering:

1 To access the Cluster / Remote Access Menu, click on Cluster / Remote Access, on the main screen of your WebHost Manager interface.

2 Click on Configure Cluster

3 To enable DNS clustering, click the tick box next to Enable Dns Clustering, and then click on Change.

4 Then type the IP address of a server you wish to add to the cluster in the blank field next to Server IP Address.

5 Click on Configure.

6 Repeat steps 4 and 5 as necessary.

I think you do not need to install Cpanel on second server. Just install bind on second server.