Thread: HA Lamp Stack vs Cloud, opinions anyone?

so i'm starting web hosting business, , i've worked server admin before. running (6 years ago) 2 lamps regularly rsync'ed each other , switch interfaces file if 1 went down (manually after being alerted email). after research these days see how utterly stupid is, needless i'm not doing again.

i'm setting own system, have 2 fortigate 60's, 2 netgear 48p switches, , 2 dell poweredge 1950s. i'm running fws ha switches (with failover) , going servers. i'm configuring servers 20g os partition , 100g data partition drdb replicate between 2 servers lamp stack reside on (along home folders ftp user purposes). i'm doing this, keep hearing people set cloud, after researching vmware (i work in datacenter, it's use here), decided not to.

however, i've been turned on openstack. have limited experience using cloud services, i'm turned on fact can add more servers through virtualization , upgrade hardware add resources. 2 or 3 nodes can give me lamp box, sql server, , mail server , test servers if needed. however, i'm confused if best option.

know ha lamp stack, 2 servers redundant , redundancies way access switch in datacenter shouldn't ever experience downtime. vms going give same security? have 2 nodes , 1 goes down, other pick right or vm crippled half resources disappearing? going vm available , redundant having 2 machines running in ha?

in advance help. of server admin stuff i've done self taught , through trial , error, guess want 1 done right first time because it's reputation , clients on line lol.

well have 100 views on thread. posting in wrong place? have opinions on this?

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