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What Is Cluster Hosting

What is Cluster Web Hosting?

Last updated on April 14th, 2023 by RGB Web Tech

Cluster hosting is sometimes confused with Cloud or Grid hosting. It is simply a group of servers that operate together and act as one “mega” server. The big difference between cluster hosting and cloud hosting is cluster hosting is over a smaller area. For instance, there could be a cluster of servers along the eastern coast of the United States.

Cluster host is typically billed on an hourly or monthly rate.

Advantages of Clustering Servers

Clustering servers is completely a scalable solution. You can add resources to the cluster afterwards.
If a server in the cluster needs any maintenance, you can do it by stopping it while handling the load over to other servers.
Among high availability options, clustering takes a special place since it is reliable and easy to configure. In case of a server having a problem providing the services furthermore, other servers in the cluster can take the load.

Disadvantages of Clustering Servers

Cost is high. Since the cluster needs good hardware and a design, it will be costly compared to a non-clustered server management design. Being not cost effective is a main disadvantage of this particular design.
Since clustering needs more servers and hardware to establish one, monitoring and maintenance is hard. Thus increase the infrastructure.