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How to offer Cloud hosting?
I have a hosting company and I'm currently owning many OVH dedicated servers. I've been providing shared, vps and dedicated servers (managed) but I'd like to go further and start offering cloud hosting.
I see many competitors have started to offer it and I'd like to know which are the steps in order to start offering this service as well.
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Yes, is it a bad idea to try to be better and stay updated? I know many competitors that offer cloud hosting and a pretty bad management service
You need to install cloudsrv.
What "cloud"? It seems like so many companies have their own definitions of cloud when offering service so point to what you want to offer specifically instead of just wanting to use the term. Are you wanting some failover/HA solution or something?
Cloud is marketing fluff.
Cloud OS comes to my mind.
Cloud like "premium cloud shared web hosting"? Or cloud like Digital Ocean or OVH Cloud?
Anyway, if you are a hosting provider you should know the basic steps already. Instead, you should be asking about how to solve the problems you encountered.
Well if you're serious then here's what it takes
Separate nodes only for Storage powered by 40++ Gig uplinks for properly utilizing the I/O capacity of the RAIDED Storage.
Compute nodes with beastly raw processing power which will hold the VM's actual containers so you can easily switch to other nodes in events of node failure due to any catastrophic failure thus storage remains safe and you can achieve HA.
Coming down to network you need to have a blend of 2 or more uplink providers with N+1 Redundancy in everything and proper bandwidth to compensate for the large cluster.
You need powerful routers to manage traffic load and still have space for more uplinks when required.
Then comes the software, you can always go for OpenStack + Cloudstack or OpenNebula or alot of other popular opensource softwares out there.
You don't.
Not sure if you want to, the amount of helium required to get servers into the cloud isn't worth it anymore.
Don't forget the phosphorus!
We had great success with hydrogen
That might blow up though.
Works great upto 250 servers.
I've found cloudd to be quite a bit more reliable.
Well it mainly depends on the type of cloud service you are after.
@florianb
That was the idea
Why not use the OVH public cloud with cPanel? That what we do. Seems to work well for now.
OnApp https://onapp.com/
VestaCP offers a really good cloud panel. If you look in the config, there’s an option called
cloudPanel=0.Just change it to 1 and you have a panel with HA, multi-node support, V4/V6 networking and more! Only thing is that there is a one time fee (payable to @teamacc).