CPanel server cluster?

[w1z4rd]

Okay, what I want to do goes a bit beyond my current experience so links to how-to`s or experienced comments are very welcome.

I have a couple of Cpanel servers, they have heavy loads of them and sometimes cpanel itself is unstable and causes the server or a service on the server not to respond.

In my perfect world I want some kinda server raid clustering or whatever its called. Basically if say one of my servers goes down, theres an exact mirror of it that takes its place.

So this way users do not notice downtime and nothing in lost in the process. Some kinda network raid or something.

Also, how would the DNS work with this? I mean if mail.mydomain.co.za points at 10.0.0.2 how does it automatically fall over to the spare server and so on?

Can Cpanel do this?

 

[James]

Riiight, firstly I am not too sure how cpanel will replicate. The first thing you will need is to get the servers to replicate and be in sync all the time one master one slave. This will need database replication as well as file system replication. Then the next thing would probably be to set up a load balancer with some form of heartbeat and if the server reports unavailable it will switch.

EDIT: As to whether Cpanel can do this? Anything is possible but this will be a big challenge imo

 

[spiderz]

Run the Cpanel server on a Virtual machine on a cloud. (look at Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud)