Zeus Powers Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers

Web Hosting Reviews – SAN MATEO, Calif. - Zeus Technology, the only pure, software-based application traffic management (Application Delivery Controller) company, today announced that its load balancing technology is powering the Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers. With Zeus software, Rackspace, the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, is providing its customers with the ability to quickly load balance and scale multiple Cloud Servers™ for optimal resource utilization.

Zeus’ pure software application delivery controller, Zeus Traffic Manager, helps to enable Rackspace customers to deliver applications within the Rackspace cloud. Implementing this solution in Rackspace’s suite of cloud solutions, including Cloud Sites™, Cloud Files™ and Cloud Servers™, can help customers improve application performance, increase application availability and better manage application updates. “With Rackspace Cloud Loud Balancers, we get a failover solution without a lot of effort and expense,” said H. Wade Minter, senior developer & chief architect, TeamSnap. “Our Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers really save us in terms of the number of machines that we have to manage – and it’s all based on technology I know is solid. Better quality software, more redundancy, less work on our end and a solution we and our customers can depend on – it was an easy choice for us.”

Further addressing the need for high availability in the cloud, Josh Odom, senior manager of product at Rackspace, and Raja Srinivasan, vice president of cloud computing at Zeus, will speak together at Cloud Expo in New York being held from June 6 – 9, 2011. During their June 8 session, Build and Automate Your Own Cloud High Availability Config Using Cloud Load Balancers in 15 Minutes (or less), they will discuss the benefits of using load balancing solutions in the cloud.

Srinivasan and Odom will also examine how load balancing solutions lead to cost savings, scalability and the peace of mind of knowing that a company’s web-based application or service is prepared to handle massive amounts of traffic. They will additionally discuss how pure software application delivery controllers are fundamentally changing the role of service delivery, particularly as businesses migrate to and leverage the cloud.

“Cloud computing has established its importance in today’s business landscape. As more companies realize and take advantage of its immense potential, they need to ensure they can maintain consistent delivery and application availability,” said Srinivasan. “We are pleased to work with Rackspace to offer a software application delivery controller to their customers, highlighting the value of load balancers in the cloud.

Fundamental Guides On WebHost Manager (WHM)

You can access WHM just like your cpanel, in fact you use the same login details as your cpanel to access the WHM panel. You will find it’s located at www.yourdomain.com/whm .

WHM allows the server admin to make changes to domains they are hosting, perform maintenance procedures and install additional tools that they want to make accessible to all or individual domains.

WHM Demo (1): Account Information

WHM Demo (2): Server Status Report

Inside WHM you will notice that it’s broken down into 2 parts, you have a left side menu navigation which allows you to manage your accounts, edit, delete and view site activity. It’s broken down into sixteen different areas:

If your domain folders are visible through this site; which means if you can see anything different than what you can when you go directly to your URL, then your domain is setup, and you can begin to work on it. To work on it, you can access the site using an ftp program like Coreftp and begin to upload files. You should also at that point be able to access the Cpanel and install whatever CMS platform you plan on using.

For the most part there are only a few times you’re going to use WHM and here they are:

As you can see WHM is very powerful, it lets you do so many other things but going into what those things do would only overwhelm the average user. The above provides a detailed breakdown of what you would be using and how you can do it.

If you run into the situation of your bandwidth exceeding on your site, which does happen, you can now fix that very fast by logging in and increasing the bandwidth. This means you no longer have to wait around to hear back from your web host and your site can be back up online within minutes. In today’s world of business minutes can mean the difference between losing and winning online.

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