Research & Development: Virtualization
Over the past few months we have been doing large amounts of research on Virtualization and different software packages used to virtualize servers. For those of you that don’t know, Virtualization is a method of taking multiple computer instances and running them on one physical machine. The idea is ideal for helping to consume less energy, take advantage of unused hardware and save space used by computers.
The general idea to virtualizing the servers is so Weberz can provide a load balanced hosting environment to our users while providing redundancy in the event of a hardware failure. Basically in english that means we will have two servers providing the services that “Mail1″ currently provides and if one of the servers dies, the system stays online. This should definitely help increase uptime and provide for more stability on the network.
Also by Virtualizing some of the servers we will be able to offer new products and services to our users. Such as allowing a end user or reseller to have a dedicated web server instance for their websites at a fraction of the cost of one of our dedicated servers.
More information about virtualization and how Weberz plans to use it is sure to follow in the future.
Any idea on when this will be available?
I am not sure when this is going to be available. The tests went great and it looks like a fantastic idea, however we are having some issues with the h-sphere system that need to be worked out before we can do things like this.