Cloudlinux Suggestion

[Snagon]

Hello, I have a suggestion, why not use CloudLinux OS http://www.cloudlinux.com/, this will help reduce downtime as it will prevent users from using all available resources.

[anush]

@snagon i think the current version of linux is a completely modified version by Djbob which has the required features that prevents excess usage, and changing to that will need a lot of pain staking task, don't know whether he agrees with that or not.

 

Any way that ia a great suggestion.

[Shinryuu]

@snagon i think the current version of linux is a completely modified version by Djbob which has the required features that prevents excess usage, and changing to that will need a lot of pain staking task, don't know whether he agrees with that or not. Any way that ia a great suggestion.

 

Basically, yeah. Redoing our infrastructure will take time, that time is downtime. If we had a new server we could test out CloudLinux on it but dropping either Stevie or Johnny and reimaging them is impossible. We have almost 7200 active accounts currently, about 4k on Johnny, the rest on Stevie, that's 7200+ functional websites with their own userbase, if you add inactive and suspended account that jumps to just under 28.5k accounts.

 

Also we have nowhere to offload account data while we reimage the servers so if we reimage a machine that's 4k active accounts being erased for no reason, plus 10k users who could want a data backup or account reactivation. Over 8 years we've managed to form a relatively stable system, Stevie is proof that it works and works great. Johnny is unstable because we push it far beyond what we allow on Stevie.