Control Panel Server Duties?

[alex042]

What aspects of HSphere does the control panel server do? If it goes down, will the websites on all servers be unavailable? Do http requests go through the control panel server? Or is the control panel server just used to assign resources? or something else?

[rldev]

Alex,
Most of this info is here, just do a search.

http service will not go down if the cp server goes down.
The cp server assigns resources, does billing and of course allows access to the various cps. However, much depends on your server configuration.

[dynamicnet]

Greetings:

There is a lot of documentation at http://www.psoft.net/HSdocumentation/index.html along within the forums.

A H-Sphere cluster is composed of serveral logical servers which may be on one or more physical servers.

mySQL would be on a logical server. Mail would be on another logical server. DNS name server 1 would be on a logical server. And so on.

You can have one to many logical servers on a physical server; and some do run their H-Sphere as a cluster of one physical server (though it is usually better to have more than one physical server).

For the most part, logical servers are separate from one another.

If the CP "logical" service was down, then mail would still be running, mySQL operational, etc.

End users, resellers, and system admin's that used the admin level cpanel would not be able to log in and make changes; but Web sites would be up, and other features functional.

If you have several logical web servers, and one went down, then the others would operate just fine. Granted, changes in the CP server as it related to that web server may not take; but you would have a farily operational point of view (cluster wide view).

Thank you.