Free Hosting - More Updates Coming

[Corey]

Now that we have successfully moved 3 servers to our SAN setup we are very pleased by the results and will continue to gather data. If all goes well we will be moving to an enterprise grade HP SAN within the next month, more information will be posted on that as details are worked out.

Now that we have solved the I\O bottleneck we are continuing our mission to solve the other bottlenecks and issues free hosting comes with, starting with the hardware.

If you do not know, every request sent to your account is split up between two designated web servers. This adds some fault tolerance and also helps protect against attacks. When one server fails all traffic is redirected to the other within a few seconds of the issue occurring. In order to increase capacity and redundancy we will be adding a third web server for each free hosting server. This should be setup and online toward the end of the week.

We will also be performing a major overhaul of the 3 free servers we connected to the SAN. We are upgrading the processor, memory, and changing to an SSD setup for the drive configuration. With this change we will also be pulling MySQL back to the local server to run from the SSD setup. This should greatly improve cPanel response times and help resolve some lingering MySQL issues we have had. We plan to start a migration of Starka to this setup tonight or tomorrow. More information will be posted in specific news threads for each server prior to the start.

Any questions or comments?

Please remember we do not provide support in news threads

[henk506673]

Once again, Corey, Thank you for keeping us all posted on the upgrades.

[soulflare3]

With MySQL being moved to the local server, will we have to change any settings for our connections, or will localhost still work? (Sorry, I do not know much about SQL...)

With adding the third server, will that increase speed/load, or it it just used as a backup/failsafe?

[Corey]

It will always be localhost due to how we forward the connections for you.

The third server will increase speed along with it adding more redundancy.

[vv.bbcc19]

Thank You very much for the updates.
Some how,my previous post is missing.That post was about illuminated server tickets.

Regards,
VVBB

[wc3garage82]

is it only the said 3 servers will be having this migrations?? or the other servers will just follow up? since my server (stoli) is kinda having some mysql querying issues at night here at my time (takes time to query) though but keep up the good work !! :D awesome mother goes first before her daughter

[fyeahdearmaria20]

Wow, sounds good

[tobyadams]

Thanks for keeping us in the loop. The service just keeps getting better and better!

[denzil]

Why exactly are you guys doing this? What's in it for you? You guys do a lot of effort for free users even though you don't get anything in return. Well, I suppose a thank you will have to suffice for now, until I finish my website and upgrade to premium/VPS.

[Tupac]

Thanks for all the work. Its nice to still see upgrades even after all these years!
Is this why the addon domains aren't working right now?