Check out Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of Cloud Linux, Inc. and his recent interview with Liam Eagle, Editor of The WHIR, the largest news organization and consumer resource dedicated to the web hosting industry. The interview explores the challenges shared hosting providers face in delivering reliable service and optimizing servers for maximum performance and efficiency.
CloudLinux OS was specifically designed for the hosting marketplace to deliver improved performance, control, stability, and security across shared hosting platforms.
The core technology behind CloudLinux OS is its Lightweight Virtual Environment™ a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a group of processes. With LVE, administrators now have the tools to controlthe CPU and IO demands of individualtenants, so that a single site cannot slow or take down a whole server.
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You can meet Igor Seletskiy at the upcoming HostingCon conference in Austin, TX at the Austin Convention Center from July 19 – 21, 2010. Mr. Seletskiy will also be presenting on a panel entitled “What Tomorrow Brings” on July 21, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. The panel will be a discussion on technology and trends in the hosting market.
High-Powered Panel to Discuss Future of Hosting and Cloud Computing
Princeton, NJ, July 7, 2010 – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, announces today that Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of Cloud Linux Inc., will speak on a panel entitled “What Tomorrow Brings” at HostingCon in Austin, TX on July 21, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. The panel will be a discussion on technology and trends in the hosting market and will feature Mr. Seletskiy along with other industry leaders including Michael Jaffe from Microsoft, Doug Toombs of Tier 1 Research, George Karidis from SoftLayer, Ditlev Bredahl from UK2 Group, and Jack Zubarev from Parallels. HostingCon will take place at the Austin Convention Center from July 19 – 21, 2010.
“We are excited to have the opportunity to discuss what we see happening in the hosting space at this premier hosting event,” states Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of Cloud Linux Inc. “As more organizations look for solutions within the cloud, solutions like CloudLinux will play a greater central role in the future of hosting. It has always been our belief that hosting providers and datacenters need the right set of tools to manage the increasingly complex computing configurations that customers demand, and CloudLinux was created for just this purpose.”
CloudLinux is a commercially supported Operating System proven to increase server density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability. Tenant level virtualization solutions like CloudLinux are crucial for web hosts and data centers that require better control and efficiency from their infrastructure so that they can adapt to new cloud-based services. CloudLinux’s proprietary approach is an RPM-based Operating System that uses CloudLinux’s own kernel with new Lightweight Virtual Environment™ or LVE Technology to provide “crash proof” multi-tenant server environments.
HostingCon is the premier conference and trade show for the hosted services industry. In its 6th year, conference attendees will learn about the latest news, ideas and technology affecting their businesses. This event is a tremendous opportunity to learn about the newest insights into the business, as well as network with the largest concentration of hosting industry leaders in the United States.
Princeton, NJ, June 30, 2010 – CloudLinux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, announces today that Dynamic Net, Inc., a full service hosting services provider, will integrate CloudLinux across its hosting infrastructure. Dynamic Net Inc. offers a full suite of hosting services including domain name registration, shared hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), dedicated hosting, as well as managed and unmanaged dedicated servers and co-location. Selected for its new innovative Lightweight Virtual Environment™(LVE) technology, Dynamic Net Inc. will deploy CloudLinux to increase its ability to deliver stability, reliability and a higher level of customer service to its customers.
“Dynamic Net is focused on providing superior service to our customers, both large and small,” states Dynamic Net Inc.,Chief Steward Peter Abraham. “By forging alliances and partnerships with companies such as Cloud Linux, we are able todeliver the most innovative and highest performance solutions for our customers.”
CloudLinux’s core technology is Lightweight Virtual Environment™ a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a group of processes. While similar to container type virtualization technology, LVE is completely transparent and lightweight. Once installed, the LVE works transparently to manage resources that the hosting provider sets for the accounts on a server. It controls the CPU resources to ensure that each account on a shared server is allocated enough resources to run efficiently without jeopardizing the other tenants on that server, making the server more stable and delivering better performance.
With LVE, CloudLinux can deliver performance, reliability and operational benefits for hosting providers including:
Increased density and capability per server without increasing risk
More efficient and stable servers
Reduced impact of unpredictable events like load spikes that can take down or slow down a server
Reduced operational costs related to hardware, electricity, datacenter space and management costs
Better utilization of existing infrastructure
Dynamic Net delivers fully managed services along with facility and non-facility based managed services. With such a diverse customer base, they need to provide customers with:
Increased uptime so that no one account can slow down or take down an entire shared server
Better reliability and performance with a server that is running at peak operating capacity
Compatibility with all major control panels for easy management
Protection from hackers and poorly written scripts that drain resources, cause outages and impact productivity
“Dynamic Net will be able to take advantage of the unique solution that CloudLinux provides, ensuring competitive advantages over other hosting providers,” states Igor Seletskiy, Cloud Linux Founder and CEO. ”With our proven technology, service providers achieve higher performance and increased stability which equates to ultimately providing a higher level of service and support to their clients.”
With LVE, hosting providers like Dynamic Net now have the tools to control the CPU and IO demands of individual tenants, so that a single site cannot slow or take down a whole server and provide customers with the easy management and solid solutions they need to stay ahead in business.
CloudLinux is priced to support all types of hosting providers. For shared hosting providers, CloudLinux is available at a tiered retail monthly price based on the number of servers under management. The CloudLinux Partner Program offers discounts and more competitive pricing and a support model designed to meet the specific requirements of hosting companies as well as an opportunity to leverage the CloudLinux brand.
Dynamic Net, Inc. and its We Manage Servers division is a fully managed hosting provider and the provider of facility and non-facility based managed services. They are often the managed services behind such companies as NTT/Verio and Rackspace. With 15 years of business experience, Dynamic Net Inc. is a team of experienced developers and consultants that provide turnkey Net business solutions for companies small and large. They provide solutions for all kinds of business through personal attention and relationship building.
About Cloud Linux, Inc.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, Cloud Linux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.
CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.
To join online discussions and receive news updates you can find CloudLinux on: Twitter and LinkedIn. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.
ancotel GmbH, a Frankfurt-based operator of one of Europe’s largest (if not thee) interconnection and colocation facility announce the acquisition of LIDARC, the Long Island Data and Recovery Center – a long-Island based colocation and interconnection facility located at 1025 Old Country Road (1025 OCR) in Westbury on Long Island in New York.
The company will mark the occassion with a press conference, to be held on July 1 at 10am EDT at the facility which will feature ancotel’s management team as well as a varied group of elected officials representing New York State, Nassau County and the town of N. Hempstead on Long Island. Representatives include Jon Kaiman, the North Hempstead Town Supervisor, Ed Eisenstein the Commissioner/Chief Inforamtion Officer for Nassau County and Joseph J. Galante, the Assistant Comptroller for Intergovernmental & Community Affairs on behalf of the State Comptroller, Thomas D. DiNapoli.
Media and interested parties are encouraged to attend the event on July 1 at 1025 OCR in Westbury, which will be followed by facility site tours and a luncheon in the building’s atrium. The event will also be available via a live video streaming on the web accessible at http://www.jaymiescotto.com/ancotel.php - the feed will be live starting right before 10am EDT – questions from virtual participants will be taken via the online video portal text/message box. To participate simply join the conference by going to the website noted above. For more information about the event, ancotel, the facility and its plans – briefings are available by emailing pr@jaymiescotto.com.
The press release in its entirety is below:
ancotel Group Founds New Telehouse at 1025 Old Country Road, Long Island, New York
Facility to be developed into a key interconnection hub for connectivity between North America and Europe
Westbury, NY U.S.A. - June 30, 2010 – Frankfurt-based ancotel GmbH, operators of the largest and most important telecommunications and data network hub in Europe, announces today that it has acquired LIDARC (“Long Island Data and Recovery Center”), a Long Island-based colocation and interconnection facility located at 1025 Old Country Road (‘1025 OCR’), Westbury, NY. This acquisition marks ancotel’s first foray into the United States’ data center and colocation market. The company will leverage Long Island’s telecommunications infrastructure to provide invaluable communication opportunities throughout the Long Island and New York metro area to become the preferred gateway to Europe’s number one telehouse.
Long Island serves as a key landing point for submarine cables that connect North America to Europe. Until recently, network infrastructure has often bypassed Long Island to traverse into and through Manhattan. Jason Schafer, Senior Analyst Datacenters for Tier1 Research comments, “Downtown Manhattan has been facing datacenter, power, and real-estate capacity constraints, which is pushing business outwards from downtown to areas such as northern NJ and Long Island.” In addition, many companies today require diverse routing around New York City as well as lower latency connectivity for critical communications and financial trading applications between Europe, South America and Asia.
“ancotel is known as one of the most successful companies for telehousing and interconnection services in the world,” states John Reynolds, Managing Director of ancotel USA and former Managing Director of LIDARC. “The company is committed to its investment on Long Island. They have plans to transform this facility into a critical meet-me-point for companies, cable operators, carriers, service providers and international companies. This will create jobs in the area and attract an array of industries, such as health care, financial, media and content providers, to Nassau County. We believe that this facility will be the spark that lights the flame of economic development on Long Island.”
Geography plays an important role in today’s communications age. With more companies requiring global direct connectivity for voice, data and video traffic, proximity to service providers and applications are increasingly significant. Data center facilities have become a key ingredient in the success of global enterprise businesses IT infrastructure. Until ancotel USA’s telehouse opening, Long Island’s data center and colocation market has been overlooked for other geographic locations. This is why ancotel is committed to establish 1025 Old Country Road in Westbury, NY as the preferred gateway to Europe’s number one telehouse.
“We have been looking at the U.S. data center market for quite some time now,” comments K.-J. Orth, Managing Director of ancotel GmbH and Chief Marketing Officer of ancotel USA, LLC. “With this acquisition, our proven expertise will enable this facility, located in the most eastern point in the United States, to offer direct interconnectivity to and between trans-Atlantic, Caribbean and Latin American submarine cable systems as well as leading nationwide and global network operators. As a result, ancotel USA will usher in a new dimension of global network interconnection capabilities.”
ancotel will unveil its plans for its colocation and interconnection facility at 1025 Old Country Road, Westbury, New York on Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 10:00am EDT at a press conference on-site. To access the press conference virtually, please click here or go to http://www.jaymiescotto.com/ancotel.php. For more information about ancotel, please visit www.ancotel.com. For information about the press conference and to attend in person or virtually, please contact pr@jaymiescotto.com.
About ancotel
ancotel GmbH, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, operates the largest and most significant telecommunications and data hub in Europe. The ancotel group provides international carriers and providers with a central and high-performing marketplace for their broadband and communication services. As an independent company, ancotel is a leading provider of services involving carrier-neutral colocation, telehousing and interconnection. Founded in 1999, ancotel now encompasses almost 400 telecommunications and data carriers. Telephone and Internet providers are linked with one another through the physical and virtual ancotel meet me rooms (mmr), and use them to conduct their operations. In addition to its traditional physical cross-connections using fiber-optic, coaxial and twisted-pair copper cables, ancotel also relies on virtual mmr platforms and managed services. ancotel is headquartered in Frankfurt with branches in London, Hong Kong, New York City and an independent telehouse in Westbury, New York. ancotel’s reference customers include 1&1, Arcor, AT&T, BSO Network Solutions, BT, Cable & Wireless, China Telecom, Colt Technology Services GmbH, DE-CIX, Deutsche Telekom, Elion, France Telecom, Global Crossing, GTS Energis, iBasis, HanseNet, Interoute Germany, Kabel Deutschland, KDDI Corporation, KPN, KT Corporation Korea, LANCK Telecom, Linx Telecommunications, NTT Communications, Plusnet GmbH, RETN, Swisscom, Tata Communications, Telekom Austria, Telecom Italia, Telefonica O2, Telekom Austria, TeliaSonera, TEO Litauen, Türk Telekomunikasyon, Verizon and WiTCOM.
Partnership Expands CloudLinux benefits of increased
Stability and Performance to their Customers
Princeton, NJ, June 23, 2010 – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, announces today that CH-Center Hosting, a Romania based full service hosting company, will offer CloudLinux across its hosted offerings. CH-Center Hosting provides its customers shared hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), as well as dedicated hosting. Selected for its new innovative Lightweight Virtual Environment™(LVE) technology, CH-Center will deployCloudLinux to increase its ability to deliver stability, reliability and a higher level of customer service to its customers.
“CH-Center is excited to offer CloudLinux to our customers. We have been looking for a solution to allow better control of server resources and this is the best solution we have encountered,” states CH-Center Network Administrator, Claudiu Popescu.
CloudLinux’s core technology is Lightweight Virtual Environment™ a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a group of processes. While similar to container type virtualization technology, LVE is completely transparent and lightweight. Once installed, the LVE works transparently to manage resources that the hosting provider sets for the accounts on a server. It controls the CPU resources to ensure that each account on a shared server is allocated enough resources to run efficiently without jeopardizing the other tenants on that server, making the server more stable and delivering better performance.
With LVE, CloudLinux can deliver performance, reliability and operational benefits for hosting providers like CH-Center including:
Increased density and capability per server without increasing risk
More efficient and stable servers
Reduced impact of unpredictable events like load spikes that can take down or slow down a server
Reduced operational costs related to hardware, electricity, datacenter space and management costs
Better utilization of existing infrastructure
CH-Center Hosting provides a diverse set of service offerings for the different needs of its customer. With CloudLinux, they will deliver:
Increased uptime since no one account can slow down or take down an entire shared server
Better reliability and performance with a server that is running at peak operating capacity
Compatibility with all major control panels for easy management
Protection from hackers and poorly written scripts that drain resources, cause outages and impact productivity
“CH-Center will be able to provide a unique solution for their customers and benefit from the reliability and performance CloudLinux can deliver,” states Igor Seletskiy, Cloud Linux Founder and CEO. “Service providers can achieve higher density and increased stability with our proven technology which ultimately provides a higher level of service and support to their clients.”
With LVE, hosting providers like CH-Center now have the tools to control the CPU and I/O demands of individual tenants, so that a single site cannot slow or take down a whole server and provide customers with the easy management and solid solutions they need to stay ahead in business.
CloudLinux is priced to support all types of hosting providers. For shared hosting providers, CloudLinux is available at a tiered retail monthly price based on the number of servers under management. The CloudLinux Partner Program offers discounts and more competitive pricing and a support model designed to meet the specific requirements of hosting companies as well as an opportunity to leverage the CloudLinux brand.
Ch-Center Hosting is a full-service hosting provider based near Bucharest, Romania. Founded as a local Internet Service Provider, they have been offering connectivity since 2005 and hosting since 2007 in their private datacenter. CH-Center provides customers with multiple shared hosting options, unmetered bandwidth for dedicated and VPS customers as well as Linux and Windows BSD platforms. Focused on customer service, they provide rapid response support and other customer centric options. To learn more go to www.ch-center.com.
About CloudLinux, Inc.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.
CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.
To join online discussions and receive news updates you can find CloudLinux on: Twitter and LinkedIn. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.
We are thrilled to receive notification that CloudLinux has been named as a finalist in the 2010 Cloud Computing World Series Awards. Cloud Linux is featured in the ‘Best Start-Up’ category, which recognizes companies that were founded after January 2009 and provide a cloud-based product or service in the cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) market. We are really jazzed to show off the nominee icon on our home page!
We knew our novel approach to application and tenant level virtualization was a hit, but now others recognize the benefits as well. The word is out to hosting providers and cloud computing organizations who can see how CloudLinux can increase performance as compared to other solutions available on the market.
Winners of the Cloud Computing World Series Awards will be announced on June 29th at an award ceremony to be held at the Olympia Conference Center in London as part of the Cloud Computing World Forum. The conference offers a comprehensive view of the most complete and innovative platforms across the global cloud computing and SaaS industry.
We are honored to be part of the event and we will keep our fingers crossed!
Catch the latest industry news from the Customer Business Exchange (CBX) event! CBX is being hosted by Telx today in NYC at the Marriott Marquis. As an invitation only networking event, the CBX is designed to help grow and drive new business with hundreds of companies participating.
GCS launches Dynamic On-Demand – A SaaS Version of its market leading Route & Rate Management Solution
RUBICON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DELIVERS ENERGY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR CRITICAL FACILITIES - Rubicon Enables Telx to Identify Demand Response Revenue While Reducing Costs Across all Phases of the Critical Facility Deployment
RAINBOW BROADBAND AND BUSINESS ONLY BROADBAND FORM PARTNERSHIP -Strategic Partnership Will Greatly Enhance Companies’ Wireless Broadband Network Offerings to Enterprise and Government Customers in NYC and Chicago Markets
EKU Solutions, LLC Selects Global Telecom & Technology to Expand Its U.S. Network
EDPnet – Building bridges between the USA, Europe and Russia
Pacific Controls Energy Services Command Control Centre Serves Clients Globally -enabling the monitoring and management of their assets, carrying out continuous Commissioning, Measurement & Verification of their Carbon Footprint and converting them into Carbon Financial Instruments, in real time.
New Case Study Reveals the Benefits Behind CloudLinux
Princeton, NJ, June 3, 2010 – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, today announces that Cartika, an industry innovator in cloud hosting services has increased density on its shared hosting servers by 5X using CloudLinux. During a recent server upgrade project, Cartika deployed CloudLinux to help improve the density of its shared hosting infrastructure. After deployment, not only did Cartika increase density and consolidate servers on a ratio of 5 to 1, but were also able to improve uptime and performance. Cloud Linux has released a case study, which chronicles the project and progress achieved during Cartika’s project.
The results of Cartika’s upgrade project further prove the value of the stability and control CloudLinux can give hosting service providers over the server environment for more efficient and profitable operations. CloudLinux invented the Lightweight Virtual Environment™ a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a specific process or customer. LVE isolates specific hardware resources in a lightweight container and prevents one tenant on a shared server from affecting others – especially due to a sudden peak load from a single tenant.
“CloudLinux has not only helped us improve the density out of our existing infrastructure, but also helped us realize significantcost savings in other ways,” states Andrew Rouchotas, CEO of Cartika.. “There were significant benefits that helped us save real costs in electricity and cooling but also savings in staff time that allowed us to focus our efforts on revenue generating activities and growing our business.”
By deploying CloudLinux, Cartika maximized its hardware consolidation efforts and improved server density and stability. CloudLinux increased the number of accounts hosted on one server and improved the consolidation efforts – so that now no one account can take down the entire server. Server stability also improved by allowing Cartika to set resource limits on their shared hosting customers without sacrificing uptime or performance. In addition, the Cartika hardware upgrade gave their customers more processing power.
“We are proud to see the real value that CloudLinux is able to deliver to hosting providers, as it shows the benefits of having full control over the hosting environment,” said Igor Seletskiy, Cloud Linux Inc. Founder and CEO.
The results of Cartika’s deployment of CloudLinux were:
Increased density by 5X while improving uptime and processing power
Reduced overall hardware footprint
Improved ROI so they could leverage new hardware available for shared hosting
Reduced risks of unpredictable events taking down an entire server
Empowered front line technicians to diagnose and solve problems
Founded in Toronto in May 2002, Cartika Inc. has established itself as a leader in Application Hosting and advanced technologies. Advanced web hosting facilities and technologies, combined with intricate knowledge in several best of breed Open Source and Commercial Applications, Cartika can web enable your core business processes.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, Cloud Linux Inc. is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.
Cloud Linux Inc. provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.
Providing Increased Shared Server Density and Stability to Its Robust Enterprise-Class Hosting Suite
Princeton, NJ, May 26, 2010 – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, announces today that Top Hosting Center, a cloud-hosting provider based in Montreal, Canada, will offer CloudLinux as one of its standard Linux Operating Systems (OS) on its cloud solutions, including its Cloud Sites and Cloud Servers offerings. CloudLinux was selected by Top Hosting Center because of the increased density and stability that CloudLinux can provide to its cloud hosting offering. As a new CloudLinux partner, Top Hosting marks the ninth service provider partnership within the first 90 days of the CloudLinux launch.
Top Hosting Center’s Cloud Sites package fills the gap between traditional shared hosting and full dedicated server offerings. The Cloud Sites package provides all the benefits of high availability and robust enterprise-class hosting at an affordable price. By leveraging CloudLinux’s Lightweight Virtual Environment™ (LVE) technology, Top Hosting Center can further deliver increased performance and stability across all of its hosting options.
“Top Hosting Center believes that hosting customers should expect more from their providers – more flexibility, higher performance, and increased stability. By adding CloudLinux to our stack of services, we are demonstrating that strong commitment to our customers,” said Top Hosting Center CEO Eric Vanier. “We also believe those services should be delivered at an affordable cost which is why CloudLinux is an excellent solution.”
The core technology behind CloudLinux OS is its Lightweight Virtual Environment™ a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a group of processes. This ensures that each account on a shared server is allocated enough CPU resources to run efficiently without jeopardizing the other tenants on that server.
With LVE, administrators now have the tools to control the CPU and IO demands of individual tenants, so that a single site cannot slow or take down a whole server. Compatible with major control panels for easy management and deployment, CloudLinux offers cloud and dedicated server hosting providers with increased server control and stability.
“As Top Hosting is committed to providing unmatched hosting solutions, by deploying CloudLinux across their service suite, they can further deliver high quality services and ensure maximum uptime for their clients,” states Igor Seletskiy, CloudLinux Founder and CEO. CloudLinux is a cost-effective way to ensure server stability and optimize service providers’ offerings.
Top Hosting Center is a Montreal, CA company dedicated to changing the web hosting industry. A division of Proweb Consultant, THC offers enterprise class web hosting solutions at the absolute lowest cost to customers. Affordability no longer means “cheap” or undercut services. Top Hosting Center has boldly challenged the web to find a more affordable service with comparable features and quality. THC is privately held and adheres to the Web 2.0 principles of collaboration while providing Web 3.0 support, speed, stability and quality. For more information go to www.tophostingcenter.com
About CloudLinux, Inc.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.
CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.
To join online discussions and receive news updates you can find CloudLinux on: Twitter and LinkedIn. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.
Cloud Linux Inc. Releases LVE Wrappers, New Tools to Control CPU Usage For Individual Users and Programs on Dedicated Servers - New Tools Provide Granular Level Server Control Unavailable from Other OS Offers
Princeton, NJ, May 19, 2010 – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, today announces the availability of LVE Wrappers™, tools that let the server owner control the exact CPU usage for individual users and applications. LVE Wrappers are based on CloudLinux’s Lightweight Virtual Environment™ technology that allows the administrator to control CPU usage on a server at the tenant or application level. LVE Wrappers allow the server owner to control resources for each application they run which gives them greater flexibility and stability out of the overall server infrastructure. The software is available to all CloudLinux subscribers.
The release of these innovative tools is further demonstration of Cloud Linux’s promise to help service providers increase stability and control of the server environment for more efficient and profitable operations. CloudLinux invented the Lightweight Virtual Environment™ a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a specific process or customer. LVE isolate specific hardware resources in a lightweight container and prevents one tenant on a shared server from affecting others – especially due to a sudden peak load from a single tenant.
With new LVE Wrappers, the server owner can start individual applications and daemons inside LVE environments, isolating resource usage for each program. That allows greater overall stability of the server, as one application cannot affect all the other applications running on the server. This is especially useful for servers running multiple applications. For instance, a dedicated server runs a variety of software, such as mail, MySQL and Apache, often at the same time. A spike in mail traffic or a bug in the anti-spam filtering could affect the web server – and cause the website to slow down. CloudLinux lets the administrator have better control and make sure each daemon only gets the pre-set amount of CPU. The administrator now has the tools to alter the amount of CPU any application can get – on the fly. With LVE, CloudLinux can deliver such unprecedented level of control while being transparent from the system administrator.
Hosting providers and companies who use dedicated servers will be able to benefit from this new offering. With CloudLinux, a server administrator can set the resource limit for CPU (I/O and memory usage limits to be released in the future). With LVE Wrappers, they can manage server resources at the application level giving them more granular and detailed control over resource allocation and management.
“LVE wrappers give system administrators an unprecedented level of control over the resources that services can use, without the overhead of fully blown virtualization. It provides a great level of convenience and control,” said Igor Seletskiy, Cloud Linux Inc. Founder and CEO.
LVE wrappers reflect a continuing effort on the part of Cloud Linux Inc. to innovate in the space of application and tenant level virtualization and deliver tools that increase stability and Quality of Service (QoS) for shared hosting providers and dedicated server owners.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, Cloud Linux Inc. is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.
Cloud Linux Inc. provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.
Check out Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of Cloud Linux, Inc. and his recent interview with Liam Eagle, Editor of The WHIR, the largest news organization and consumer resource dedicated to the web hosting industry. The interview explores the challenges shared hosting providers face in delivering reliable service and optimizing servers for maximum performance and efficiency.
control, stability, and security across shared hosting platforms.
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