For most of its 12 yr historical past, CloudLinux has been targeted on the net internet hosting business, centering its enterprise round CloudLinux OS, a industrial Linux distribution primarily based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and designed to satisfy the wants of hosting firms. Today, the working system powers greater than 20 million web sites working on 200,000 servers, the corporate says.
Along the way in which, it discovered that a few of its choices — most notably a service for dwell patching Linux machines with no reboot — have been additionally attracting some enterprise clients and started nurturing that market by adjusting a few of the merchandise they have been utilizing to higher go well with enterprise wants.
In May, with enterprise clients now accounting for roughly half of its enterprise, in accordance with product supervisor Vitalii Stavropolskyi, the corporate launched a brand new model, TuxCare, particularly for enterprises. With the brand new model got here a new website, with all enterprise-focused merchandise transferring off the CloudLinux site.
“Building out a bigger model to deal with our rapidly-expanding set of providers makes it simpler for our clients and prospects to see the whole lot we offer in a single place,” Jim Jackson, CloudLinux’s president and CRO, mentioned in a press release. “Under the brand new TuxCare umbrella clients can evaluation and choose the whole lot they want from our cohesive assortment of providers to care for their Linux infrastructure.”
TuxCare for the Enterprise
The new model, named after Linux’s penguin mascot, places the CloudLinux merchandise KernelCare (rebranded as Live Patching Services), Extended Lifecycle Support, and Linux Support Services beneath the identical on-line roof.
The firm’s Live Patching Services consists of the entire necessary elements within the Linux stack, not solely the kernel however issues like widely-used shared libraries, resembling glibc and openssl. Enterprises with must-run workloads that may’t afford downtime prefer it as a result of the patches are utilized on the fly, without having for servers or providers to be restarted.
Linux Support Services additionally presents safety patching however provides 24/7 incident help, even for Linux methods which are previous their finish of life.
“Whatever the rationale could also be to run methods previous their EOL, TuxCare can guarantee they continue to be safe and updated with safety patches,” the corporate says on the TuxCare web site.
Supported software program consists of Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, CentOS, and AlmaLinux, in addition to different open supply software program. The firm mentioned that TuxCare’s elements totally combine with most administration and monitoring methods that enterprises generally use, resembling Nessus or Qualys, and will be deployed utilizing commonplace deployment software program like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
CloudLinux OS Solo a Hybrid
Just as a result of CloudLinux has determined to spend extra effort catering to enterprises does not imply it is going to be turning its again on the net hosts that helped construct its enterprise. Its eponymous Linux distribution stays its centerpiece, squarely aimed on the internet hosting market.
“We do not wish to place CloudLinux OS exterior the internet hosting market,” Stavropolskyi instructed DCK.
This does not imply that the corporate is not going to attempt to launch merchandise that attraction to each markets, nonetheless.
This week, for instance, the corporate launched the beta model of one other RHEL-based working system, CloudLinux OS Solo, designed for working web sites on digital personal servers. While the OS primarily targets net hosts, it is also meant to attraction to any group that desires to run web sites from a VPS.
This is the primary internet hosting product that the corporate has launched that is not aimed toward a shared internet hosting surroundings, Stavropolskyi mentioned, stating that nowadays many organizations are transferring from utilizing shared internet hosting accounts to internet hosting their websites themselves, on premises, as VPSes. In addition, many internet hosting firms are actually providing VPSes as choices, and Solo may be a more sensible choice for his or her inexperienced clients than one thing like CentOS, AlmaLinux, or different Linux server distributions.
Out of the field, Solo shall be outfitted with PHP X-Ray to assist customers rapidly discover the reason for efficiency points, whether or not they’re resulting from sluggish database queries, features, or exterior calls to APIs. PHP X-Ray also can discover efficiency bottlenecks and reviews these points to directors — together with recommendation on tips on how to repair them.
By the time Solo will get its first secure launch in a month or two, it is going to be totally optimized for working the WordPress content material administration system, together with a set of instruments particularly designed to optimize WordPress utilizing caching modules and database optimization.
