High-availability web hosting at an affordable price
ClonePanel is a software toolkit for backup and synchronization, monitoring and dns control with the ultimate aim of making it possible to operate a web site on two or more separate hosting accounts, giving you:
- Fully redundant DNS service
- Use the nameservers of both hosting services to provide DNS information about your domain.
- Fully redundant mail service
- Use one account as your primary mail server, the other as your secondary. Any mail collected on the secondary is transferred at regular intervals to the primary.
- Your own multiple snapshot-type backups
- Regularly downloading full backups from a hosting control panel is tedious and wasteful. Using the standard linux system tools (notably rsync, ssh, gzip and hard links) you can:
- Download over a secure connection with data compression
- Transfer only what’s changed (only the modified part of changed files)
- Keep multiple copies of your complete web site using disk space that’s only the total size of the site plus changed files.
- Hot-spare server
- A spare hosting account complete with your web sites, kept up to date and ready to go whenever it’s needed.
- DNS Fail-over or round-robin load sharing
- Fail-over means that your primary server will handle all requests under normal circumstances, but if it fails DNS is switched automatically to the backup. Round-robin uses multiple A records to the main web site so that visitors are shared between the servers at all times. You will need to decide which is suitable for your site, and what changes are needed to implement them.