Anyone who keeps up with us knows that we’ve moved all of our shared and reseller hosting servers over to Cloud Linux. Here I’m going to go over what exactly Cloud Linux is, what it brings to the table, and some of the more technical aspects of it.
So, what exactly is Cloud Linux?
In a typical server environment, there are no hard limits in place for each user. There are of course things you can limit (PHP memory use, cron job execution, disk space, bandwidth, etc), but those aren’t the things users do that will hit you where it hurts. The majority of resource problems stem from CPU use, or disk IO, bad MySQL queries, and other runaway scripts. Before Cloud Linux, it was always a game of cat and mouse. We had to have our sysadmins get notified of the issue, login to the machine, locate the user and suspend whatever activity they were doing which was causing the problems. Pretty lame, right? We thought so too. Cloud Linux changes the game, not only for the end user like yourself but for us. Read the rest of this entry »