Inside CloudLinux's New Linux-Based Cloud OS (Web Host Industry Review) [LWN.net]

Web Host Industry Review takes a look at CloudLinux. "The proprietary isolation technology provides a range of benefits for shared hosts, including increasing the number of accounts per server, as well as reducing hardware, electricity, data center space and management costs. As for data centers, it provides customers with a well tested, commercially supported and maintained OS, better security reduces churn and the costs associated with security support issues, and drives extra revenue via upsell to commercially supported distribution that was optimized for Web."

Inside CloudLinux's New Linux-Based Cloud OS (Web Host Industry Review)

Posted Feb 9, 2010 20:15 UTC (Tue) by timka.org (guest, #53366) [Link] (2 responses)

Neither the article nor the official CloudLinux site gives any details on
how LVE actually works. For instance, it's unclear how it limits resources,
especially the I/O. And what's the "Optimized Apache Web Server"?

Same about CentOS/RHEL compatibility. Is CloudLinux just proprietary kernel
and special software packages built for CentOS/RHEL?

Inside CloudLinux's New Linux-Based Cloud OS (Web Host Industry Review)

Posted Feb 9, 2010 21:28 UTC (Tue) by marduk (guest, #3831) [Link] (1 responses)

From their page it appears to be OpenVZ or some other container-like virtualization. Also since
the CEO will be at the Parallels Summit, and Parallels sponsors OpenVZ so my guess is it's just
that.

"Optimized Apache Web Server" just sounds like marketing speak.

Inside CloudLinux's New Linux-Based Cloud OS (Web Host Industry Review)

Posted Feb 10, 2010 11:05 UTC (Wed) by stumbles (guest, #8796) [Link]

But its good Kool-aid. You see, you take a server in this case Apache, optimize it and you got yourself the bees knees of an optimized server. While your newly optimized server is bending bees knees, its the cats meow able to lap up all manner of parallelism needed by all those dumb terminals that will be connecting to you. So you see, its just a crafty approach to virtualize your containers and convince everyone you don't really need all that software on your PC. Just think of your savings. Apologies for the above non-sense as the mere mention of Cloud computing engages my flux capacitor sending me back to the days of 3720 terminals and IBM 360 mainframes.

Inside CloudLinux's New Linux-Based Cloud OS (Web Host Industry Review)

Posted Feb 10, 2010 10:56 UTC (Wed) by stumbles (guest, #8796) [Link] (1 responses)

I for one welcome the return of the Neanderthal days of a terminal connected to a server (the cloud).

Inside CloudLinux's New Linux-Based Cloud OS (Web Host Industry Review)

Posted Feb 16, 2010 2:54 UTC (Tue) by dmag (guest, #17775) [Link]

I don't get the analogy of "cloud = mainframe". The mainframe was one box, the cloud is a billion boxes. I'll buy "return to dumb terminals" as a valid analogy.

If anything, cloud computing is more like the switch from mainframes to PCs. Employees will "sneak in" resources (i.e. use a credit card to spin up a Wiki or other appliance for their department) in order to get work done, because central IT is too busy babysitting it's existing servers.