Best Way to setup enhance

jayjayuk

Currently testing enhance on 1 vps server with all roles enabled except backup.

Would it be best to have 2 servers?

1 control panel server
and then another server for websites email etc???

Aliysa_Enhance

Hi jayjayuk if you are planning a larger cluster we recommend exactly that.

jayjayuk

I was only really planning 1 server as we only host about 100 sites. Would it be possible later on to move the control panel server?

jeff

We are currently running Enhance with 8 servers.

1- Control panel
2 Hosting nodes
3 DNS servers
1 backup
1 email server.

Stability has been good but we've had to really tweak the stack.

jayjayuk

Thank you,

All our DNS goes via cloudflare and we really don't host much email as all clients use office 365.

I am thinking
1 control panel server with dns
1 hosting server with secondary dns
1 backup server for now, but maybe drop it when s3 comes out.

mike

if you are using a third party DNS provider ... would a primary, secondary or tertiary dns services make any sense 🤷‍♂️

if you are relying on your own servers then you would get some latency form far visitors.

Wayne

Hi All

We looking at replacing our current control panel due to constant price increases.

I see that @jeff has an 8-server setup, what I would really like to know is what is the largest Enhance stable setup that somebody is running? How many servers and in what config and roughly how many sites are on a server (Yes, this would depend on the server spec)

Trying to get a feel of larger installations

Darren

We have one client with nearly 100 servers in their cluster and thousands of websites across that. They have shared servers in various locations, as well as servers dedicated to specific roles (e.g. control panel, nameservers). Some of the servers are dedicated to individual clients (i.e. 1 website on a server), and others have hundreds of sites on a single server so it's a real mix.

jayjayuk

What I am trying to work out is if our 1 server that runs the control panel and websites failed, how can we restore the server with the same settings and websites to get back up and running ASAP?

Adam

jayjayuk

Right now, the best solution if you have a large cluster is to make block level backups of the control panel server. Most VPS/cloud providers have this functionality.

In the very near future there will be a facility to nominate a second server within your cluster as a control panel replica. Data will be synchronised to this server and you can "fail over" in the even that your primary control panel server is totally lost.

Rich

Thanks for that Adam with regards to the control panel replica/failover... Will we be able to promote the replica CP as the new master? I.e. if we wanted to decommission the original CP to have the role moved to a different host?

Andreas

Adam I love this idea. I think it's crucial, since CP is so important.

Adam

Rich

Yes that's exactly how it will be. Then you can set up a new replica.

Rich

Awesome thank you 🙂