What is cloudlinux and what are its advantages

CloudLinux is an operating system that is specially designed for those companies that offer a shared hosting service. The kernel of this system is based on OpenVZ, which is open source software that uses virtualization technology at the Linux-based operating system level.

Index of contents

What is CloudLinux?

OpenVZ is very similar to other virtualization applications, such as VirtualBox, VMWare or Xen, except that OpenVZ is less flexible when choosing an operating system.

The first time we heard of CloudLinux was in 2010. During its debut, this system already supported RHEL 6 and in mid-2015 it started supporting RHEL 7.

What is CloudLinux for?

The objective of CloudLinux is to improve stability and security on those servers that have different shared accounts. Most of the hosting servers that exist on the Internet, offer their services on servers shared with other users, are the cheapest and work well, thanks in large part to CloudLinux systems.

As this is a virtualization tool, it takes each account created on the server as if it were one, where you can adjust the server resources for each of the accounts individually.

The resources that can be adjusted are memory, CPU, PHP request limits, possibility to run different versions of PHP per account, etc., ensuring the stability of the server and also security.

As CloudLinux uses virtualization technology to be able to adjust parameters individually, it also isolates each of the accounts, so if a security breach occurs in any account, it will not affect the rest, since they are isolated.

Furthermore, all the parameters of this system are integrated in the cPanel, those who are already familiar with this software will have no problem accessing its options from there.

Conclusions

CloudLinux is vital software for those companies that offer shared hosting, being able to adjust the parameters of each individual account and make it perform in the best possible way, faster, more stable and secure.