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Posted by baronne, 10-05-2011, 06:57 PM
Hi, I came across these guys hybrid-sites.com and hybrid-cluster.com and wondered what your thoughts might be on this technology as a hosting solution? cheers Baronne
Posted by ByteMaster, 10-05-2011, 09:22 PM
Hello Baronne, My first impression is that they must be using shared servers - which in my mind is NOT cloud technology. I am not bashing the company - just reading their site and trying to figure out what they are doing. Hopefully they will answer and let us know!
Posted by lukemarsden, 10-07-2011, 02:24 PM
Hi everyone, > My first impression is that they must be using shared servers - which in my mind is NOT cloud technology. > I am not bashing the company - just reading their site and trying to figure out what they are doing. Hopefully they will answer and let us know! Glad to :-) Shared servers are arguably what cloud technology is all about, except in "cloud" parlance, it's called multi-tenancy. There are two ways to implement multi-tenancy: in IaaS it's almost always virtualisation, whereas in PaaS (like us) it's usually operating system level multi-tenancy such as jails, zones or containers. What sets Hybrid Sites (and Hybrid Web Cluster, the underlying technology which I invented) apart from the old school of shared web hosting is our ability to live-migrate (without VMware) websites, databases and mailboxes between nodes in our cluster. This allows us to deliver seamless burstable scalability for your apps, without needing to reboot VMs to increase capacity. Our data replication technology ensures that your data is always stored on a configurable number of servers in a configurable number of data centres, and clusters can span multiple geographical locations in order to tolerate the failure of, say, all of EC2 East. So we're not using virtualisation, but we *are* cloud technology: a distributed system which permits reliable software to conquer unreliable hardware and networks :-) <> Cheers, Luke Last edited by bear; 10-14-2011 at 02:14 PM.

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