To understand clustered hosting, it helps to understand the more traditional model, which is standalone server hosting. With this system, all web services are run on one machine - everything from the website control panel to the email server to file transfer protocols. This is obviously a lot for a single machine to cope with. You can see this with your own PC. If you have lots of programs all running at the same time - email, web browsing, word processing, anti-virus protection and so on -
they inevitably run slower than if you had just one or two running at the same time. Use too many at once, and they start to slow down or fail altogether.Exactly the same thing happens with standalone web servers. Indeed, the problem is even more acute for web hosting companies, because one server has to cope with multiple web sites. So it's not difficult to imagine why websites go down from time to time. You might even think it's something of a miracle that they're available as often as they are! Clustered hosting aims to alleviate this problem by sharing the burden of running website programs across several servers. This is like having multiple jet engines on an aircraft - if one or two fail, the rest can keep the plane in the air until it's safe to land. Clustered hosting protects each website from its neighbors. If your website runs a particularly heavy database, for instance, the fact that it's distributed across several servers means that other websites won't be affected by what you're doing, and vice versa. Clustered hosting also minimizes the effects of sudden spikes in traffic or bandwidth use. This is also a useful solution to the problem of rebooting and upgrades. Rather than taking down the entire network when a reboot is required, websites can be kept running on other servers in the cluster whilst the reboot or software upgrade is rolled out across individual servers by degrees. In the end, if you're looking to host your business online, you need to make clustered hosting part of your due diligence process.

Thanks for sharing this info with us.
What is the source of that?

Clustered hosting is somehow the top-of-the-line of hosting with cloud and load balancing.

This type of hosting surely has its place for big infrastructures, but from what I have seen, companies that require such things have their own IT department and servers.

Yea, companies do usually have a team for this, but there is a commercial use for having clustered hosting because people who have extensive website needs, and don't want to hire anyone, may have a lot of use for 100% uptime during reboots. It is a nice service to be able to offer such high performance without worrying about downtime which results in less sales.

Granted this market is small, it is still there, and people will buy if its going to save money in exchange for time spent setting everything up.

Thanks for giving an informative insight on clustered hosting, just to add to that, I would like to highlight some of the important benefits of clustered hosting. Clustered hosting provides the websites with unlimited efficiency and scalability. The potential of the website also increases, as it is. The sudden traffic surges might not cause any downtime to your website and thereby it becomes easy to retain the customers.

Anyone who takes a _network_ down to reboot a server needs to find another career.

So how (if at all) have you implemented that in your HSphere setup ?

Clustered hosting is similar to cloud hosting, in that the resources of many machines are available for a website to utilize on demand, making scalability a large advantage to a clustered hosting solution.

Source must be ecloud-net.....

Regards

What is the difference between clustered hosting from the ordinary hosting?



Does clustered hosting has been adapted by companies nowadays?

Frankly speaking I see no a big difference between clustered hosting and cloud hosting.
Do you see it ? If yes, what is that?

Probably the setup is different in cloud and cluster but the hardware is almost same.

I'm still not quite understand the explanation, is cluster hosting = server farm?

Are we talking about CloudLinux here or some other technology solution?

I also would like to know what they're using, sounds like onapp.