24/7 Solutions - The basic types of architecture of a virtual hosting.
Different hosting providers at construction of system for granting services of a
virtual hosting are guided by absolutely different motives, financial opportunities,
and program technologies. Depending on it and architecture hosting systems turn out
different, on simplicity of use and administration, on reliability and opportunities
of escalating of capacity.
So, what should have any hosting provider? It, first of all, 5 various servers, in
this case, we mean the specialized software providing communication between various
Internet by protocols (TCP/IP) and necessary user services servers (WWW, mail, FTP).
Among these servers:
- primary DNS-server
- secondary DNS-server
- mail server
- server of databases (for example MySQL)
- server of a hosting (for example Apache).
From where are established and as data of a server, from a way and speed of their
interaction are adjusted, reliability and speed of work of service of a virtual hosting
depends, it and refers to as architecture of system of a virtual hosting.
1. The Amateur (minimal) hosting service
The given services can be characterized as the systems which are not having architecture.
Till now there are decisions where all of a server and services are established on one
physical device. Even on the elementary concepts about a hosting primary and secondary
server of domain names should be located not only on different computers, but also in
different subnets (to have IP-addresses from different subnet). Despite of it, managers
hosting systems manage to place and adjust all necessary services, on one physical server
with two network interfaces.
The given decision though and actually functions, is the extremely unstable in work and
provides very much poor quality of services. Functioning of so versatile servers on one
physical device already at small (to measures of a hosting) quantity of clients causes a
fast overload of system and as consequence frequent refusals in service.
Failure of any important component of a physical server (CPU, RAM, HDD) conducts to full
refusal of all hosting systems and that is especially important - the DNS-servers, being
an integral part of world system of domain names.
2. The Sufficient hosting service
The given services have the simple network architecture consisting of two-three physical
servers. As a rule, on one computer are located secondary DNS and post a server, and on
the second and the subsequent - primary DNS and servers of a virtual hosting (Apache,
MySQL), and also systems of billing and management of a content. A server, entering into
a hosting-system it is expedient to allocate in a separate segment of the computer network,
having connected to the allocated active network device, for example the switchboard.
Advantages of the given architecture consist sufficiently reliability a hosting of service
at small and average quantity of the clients, comprehensible speed of processing of client
inquiries and an opportunity of escalating of capacity of system without essential changes
of architecture.
Optimum the architecture when for each service the separate allocated server answers looks
and there is a main server on which the control panel is placed, billing and other
auxiliary services. At such architecture high efficiency of system counting upon one
server, high reliability and fault tolerance, the minimal expenses is reached most at
escalating capacity and addition of new services. It is possible to carry high initial
cost of system to lacks.
3. HA hosting service
It is the advanced and reliable architecture хостинговых systems. Guarantees practically
100 % fault tolerance by granting services. In the given kind of a hosting the system from
the several reliable servers the Internet incorporated in a local network by high-speed
data links and connected about the Internet by the basic and reserve channel for data
transmission is used. Thus at failure of one physical server all loading is redistributed
on remained a server and the system continues to function in a usual mode up to the
decision of problems with the failed device.
Advantages of system: absolute reliability, the high adaptability to manufacture shaking
speed of work.
Lacks of system: high cost, high qualification of the attendants.
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