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Modernize Your Shared Hosting Infrastructure

Customers are demanding more from hosting providers. More performance. More reliability. More services. Traditional architectures for shared hosting can no longer meet these growing demands. What’s needed is a new design. A design with better workload distribution for more reliable services. A design with built in failover and redundancy. A design with the ability to easily pack more websites per rack while ensuring customers’ websites never slow down. All with better server utilization and storage efficiency to keep your own costs under control. What you need is StorPool’s Highly Available Shared Hosting (HASH) architecture. 

With HASH, hosting services are provided by virtual machines backed by StorPool’s modern storage solution, delivering a faster, more reliable service to customers, while providing lower costs (and improved margins) to the hosting providers. The virtual infrastructure provides automatic failover, high server utilization, and simplified operations, while StorPool Storage provides always-on reliability and best-in-class performance.

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Streamline Service Delivery Costs

Lower capital and operating expenses through virtualized servers
Build on commodity hardware to stay flexible and avoid vendor lock-in
StorPool’s legendary Fully Managed Services provides the storage expertise, letting your team focus on your customers
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Outperform with Speed and Reliability

Faster cart and checkout operations, and near instant loading of WordPress pages
Prevent website outages with always-on HASH architecture by StorPool
Improve service performance and availability without raising prices, resulting in better experiences for your customers
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Optimize Operations and Accelerate Growth

StorPool’s architecture, eliminates downtime and simplifies operations
Scale quickly and easily with StorPool’s flexible HASH architecture 
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Modern Shared Hosting Starts with StorPool

At the core of Highly Available Shared Hosting (HASH) is a cloud-like architecture: virtual machines run on commodity servers managed with a CMP and the StorPool software-defined storage. Its highly available, scale-out model reduces support and maintenance needs while cutting capital and operational costs. Virtualization and the ultra-fast performance of StorPool improve server utilization, requiring fewer physical servers for a given base of shared hosting users, saving rack space, and lowering power and cooling demands.

HASH offers high redundancy with multiple switches, data copies, and automatic VM failover within the hyper-converged cluster in case of hardware failure. Websites migrate to HASH without software changes. VM operations, including storage and data management, can be orchestrated via CloudStack, OpenStack, OpenNebula, Proxmox, or another Cloud Management Platform (CMP).

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“We have been using OpenNebula with Storpool storage for a project to virtualise some bare metal servers. With Storpool managing the cluster for us, it has been very stable and exceeded our expectations. From initial planning stage to installation and setup we have been very pleased with the responsiveness and knowledge of those on the Storpool provisioning and support teams. Knowing that the platform is managed allows us to focus on other areas of the business safe in the knowledge that it is being well looked after.”

Chris James, Managing Director – Sub 6 Limited

Frequently Asked Questions

StorPool Highly Available Shared Hosting solution is a modernized hosting infrastructure that converts traditional physical shared hosting servers into virtual machines running on highly available, software-defined block storage. Unlike traditional architectures that struggle with performance and reliability, our solution utilizes virtualized servers and commodity hardware to create a more resilient and cost-efficient service delivery platform.

StorPool’ shared hosting solution significantly improves server utilization, allowing hosting providers to support more customers with fewer physical servers. For instance, a setup for 9,000 customers requires only 5 physical servers using StorPool, compared to 32 servers in a traditional setup. This consolidation leads to:

  • Reduced Rack Space: A drop from 34 RU to just 6 RU.
  • Lower Power Consumption: Energy needs decrease from 7.60 kW to 2.09 kW.
  • Lower Cost Per User: Estimated monthly costs can drop from $0.85 to $0.73 per user.

The architecture delivers blazing all-NVMe performance and near-instant loading times for websites, which directly improves user experience and checkout operations. Key technical advantages include:

  • Live Migration: The ability to move virtual machines between hosts without downtime.
  • High Hardware Utilization: Optimizing the use of physical resources to reduce overhead.
  • Preventative Maintenance: Performing server maintenance without requiring scheduled maintenance windows or impacting service availability.

Data is protected using triple replication, ensuring that the system continues to work seamlessly even in the event of a drive or hypervisor failure. The architecture includes built-in failover capabilities and data redundancy, which allows websites to remain online and recover automatically from hardware failures. This level of high availability helps hosting providers eliminate downtime, keep their SLAs, and reduce customer churn.

StorPool Storage is designed to be highly scalable and can be automatically orchestrated through various industry-standard Cloud Management Platforms. Supported platforms include:

  • CloudStack
  • OpenStack
  • OpenNebula
  • Proxmox VE

Additionally, StorPool provides fully managed services to handle storage expertise, allowing hosting teams to focus entirely on their customers rather than infrastructure management.

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