CloudLinux: Catching On With Hosting Partners?
At first, The VAR Guy doubted that the world wanted yet another Linux distribution. But Cloud Linux Inc. seems to be proving The VAR Guy wrong. Based in New Jersey, Cloud Linux seems to be catching on with several hosting companies. Here’s why.
First, the hard news: Canadian Web Hosting, in business since 1998, has embraced CloudLinux as one of the hosting company’s standard Linux platform offerings. The reason apparently involves Cloud Linux Inc.’s Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) technology.
Cloud Linux Inc. claims LVE is:
“a transparent and lightweight kernel-level technology similar to container type virtualization. Giving the hosting service provider the ability to control resources on the server, CloudLinux achieves what other operating systems cannot. Once installed, the LVE works transparently to manage resources that the hosting provider sets for the accounts on a server.”
The VAR Guy first met Cloud Linux Inc. (the company) at the Parallels conference in February 2010. Since that time, CloudLinux (the operating system) has integrated with the Parallels Plesk Panel and R1Soft backup software. Plus, The VAR Guy has heard from a handful of hosting partners that are testing CloudLinux for possible commercial deployment.
The VAR Guy is intrigued but he has to keep his enthusiasm under control. Red Hat, after all, is entrenched with many hosting providers. And Novell’s SUSE Linux has been gaining ISV (independent software vendor) momentum.
Can CloudLinux carve out its own niche among hosting providers? Canadian Web Hosting sure seems to think so.
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“Hi VAR Guy —
Our progress over the last 4 months has been exciting by any standard. We added 5 new datacenters, hundreds of servers running CloudLinux are deployed. We have been integrated our technology with key industry platforms like R1Soft and LiteSpeed web server and this week we are launching a new set of tools, LVE Wrappers, to provide even more CPU control for server owners.
While we can understand your need to “keep your enthusiasm under control” — it is hard for us to curb our enthusiasm given our rapid acceptance in the market. We are grateful to our partners and customers who have helped us immeasurably as our company got off the ground. Watch this space … we’ve just begun!
Igor Seletskiy
CEO of CloudLinux
Igor: The VAR Guy is watching. Please keep our resident blogger posted as you achieve new business milestones.
-TVG
Since we switched to CL, we started to serve more sites with the same hardware and even faster. And also we are happy with the rapid update system.
Thank you Igor, a lot of hosting companies saved thousands of dollars with LVE
Cloud Linux works well for us. We are using it for few months. I should say it has helped us a lot from overhead.
Happy Hosting: Please keep The VAR Guy posted…
1. What applications are you running on Cloud Linux?
2. Do your customers ask/care which Linux distribution you run?
3. What made you choose Cloud Linux in the first place?
4. Can you reveal your company name to readers?
-TVG