Load Balancing through shared accounts on different nodes (cPanel)
 

Hello

I think i have just about over grown my shared hosting for vbulletin and i was wondering if it were possible to just share the load between multiple shared cpanel accounts that are on different server.

I have an about 5 shared cpanel accounts on different servers in the same datacentre at my disposal. Mabey i could use one to relay from 2 or 3 places and possibly another 1 of them could be used for mysql.

If i could use 2 different nodes in the same datacentre for mysql, that would be even better, but then how would i sync them? Everything entered may need to be entered twice (inc session info) so that may cause this to slow down.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

It is time to get a server. Then you can do everything you mentioned above, very easy.

If i get a server, i wont need balancing. I dont think i need a server just yet.

Thanks anywayz :)

Exactly. If you run vBulletin, you definitely need a server. :)

If it is not a server then a VPS would be a logical step from shared hosting.

You are right, lauxanh. :)
I always think big... The reason I said server is because the monthly cost.
Let's do a small calculation: I buy a decent server for 1,500-2,000 and I collocate it for 70$/month. I think VPS costs arround 40$-70$/month... not sure. If my site grows, there is a chance I need to move to a server and go through the pain of transferring all my data, check the server components, security etc. With my server, I have plenty of time to analyze the traffic and decide to buy another server and set it as worker that will serve the same content, mirrored.

If you have several shared accounts you probably pay like 20$/month for all of them summed. I agree that for some, $2,000 is a lot of money and also the monthly costs of $70 might be high. But on the other side, it is your own server, you do not rent so you save money. Also, you can host your buddies on your machine and split the monthly cost with them... while the machine is yours. :)

Just a different way to look at the hosting and think that eventually your site will need like 15 servers to handle all traffic. :)