Multiple VPS to create a cloud?

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Posted by doughnet, 08-10-2011, 07:44 PM
Hi. I was wondering if it is possible to use multiple VPS to create a powerful cloud system/setup. I have tried to look around for this answer but haven't been able to. I'm looking to make a real beefy cloud using a handful of different vps accounts. Thanks for your help.
Posted by VMStormVPS Dave G, 08-10-2011, 08:04 PM
Hmm. Yes if you are saying that your definition of a cloud is just a bunch of VPSs. Most people consider a true cloud to be a highly redundant and resilient hardware platform (SAN, hosts, network, etc) on top of which VPSs are placed. But depending on your end game, yes multiple VPSs could certainly work together in concert to create a cheap load balancing system. Did I understand your question correctly? Best, Dave
Posted by doughnet, 08-11-2011, 10:46 PM
Yes Dave. That is a perfect answer. Greatly appreciate your help. Guessing it be best to use only LAN servers to do a cloud for load balancing. Any opinions? Also what's the best recommended free cloud software available?
Posted by dasPing, 08-12-2011, 02:17 AM
Google App Engine gives you 10 applications a set amount of CPU and emails for free. The daily quota, is enough for thousands of page loads, hits, and megs of data to be stored.
Posted by VMStormVPS Dave G, 08-12-2011, 07:49 AM
Right, you'll get the best performance if you stick with one provider and do load balancing over a private LAN connection between your VMs. That said most providers are on really high speed backbones so speed is less of an issue than latency is. Even the latency should be OK between two providers for non-realtime applications. Given that it sounds like you're doing mostly web serving, you COULD load balance across the internet using one provider as the 'master hub' and the rest as the spokes. Iptables or an off-the-shelf appliance, or squid for that matter could probably make this work.
Posted by doughnet, 08-12-2011, 02:18 PM
Thanks again dave for your information/recommendation. What I'm doing is actually game server hosting (very low resource usage). This one vps provider charge a lot for additional bandwidth when I could pay the same amount for another vps that would have the same equivalent amount of bandwidth. Also with a cloud I was hoping to be able to pool the bandwidth. Any comments? Thanks everyone for your time.
Posted by VMStormVPS Dave G, 08-12-2011, 04:14 PM
My pleasure. Some providers will allow you to pool bandwidth. It really depends how they're metering you. Most cloud providers that I'm aware of meter per IP rather than per VLAN (if it was per VLAN, you could pool it easily). Per IP will require the OK from the provider to do. Unfortunately there's no yes or no answer on the pooled bandwidth issue -- it really comes down to provider policy.
Posted by fkam17, 08-13-2011, 02:48 AM
Unmetered bandwidth is what you need. Also, plain simple linux load balancer with redirection can already load balance your game requests over a dozen of geographically separate VPS's.
Posted by paulacastromo, 09-26-2011, 02:25 PM
The power a cloud made up of real servers cannot be compared to one made of VPS.

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