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Building a competitive VPS hosting service using open source oVirt virtualization

by Visakh S | Dec 22, 2015 | ovirt, Technical Support

In 2008, when VPS hosting made its debut, a low end VPS was priced anywhere between $30/month - $50/month. At that time, the cheapest shared hosting plan cost $5/mo. Fast forward to 2015. Now the cheapest VPS is priced at $7/mo, while the cheapest shared hosting plan...

Docker in oVirt – how we configured ‘Container as a Service’ in oVirt

by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 22, 2015 | Docker, ovirt

2015 State of the Cloud Survey showed that adoption of Docker technology was a rising trend, with around 48% DevOps companies using it. Docker is an open source project that package applications and run-time binaries into Linux containers. With Docker, developers can...

How we setup fast provisioning of Windows VMs in oVirt cloud system

by Visakh S | Dec 19, 2015 | ovirt, Server Administration

As per a recent Netcraft web server survey, Microsoft IIS web server powers about 30% of the internet. This shows that Microsoft technologies still enjoy a loyal following among business owners. So, it is no surprise that all cloud service providers offer Windows...

How we setup high availability in oVirt cloud system

by Visakh S | Dec 16, 2015 | ovirt

Just a couple of days back, Reddit went down for a few hours due to database errors. Some Redditors ranted in Twitter, some others joked about the downtime, but Reddit retained its loyal following. Now, imagine this happening to a brokerage site such as Wells Fargo,...

How to backup and restore oVirt engine

by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 16, 2015 | ovirt

In our recent post 'How to configure VM backups in oVirt', we saw how we configured a VM backup system for a cloud service provider. We further went ahead and expanded the backup system with oVirt engine backups. oVirt engine manages the centralized configuration of...

How to setup resource scaling in oVirt cloud systems

by Visakh S | Dec 15, 2015 | ovirt, Server Administration

Today, most online applications are hosted in cloud systems. Unlike traditional dedicated servers, cloud systems offer users the ability to quickly scale up or down CPU, memory, disk space or bandwidth on the go. Users love the ability to pay for just enough resources...