Full Spanel Incremntal Synchronisation Between Accounts
I would love to see a feaure that provides a full sPanel server/account incremental synchronisation. (I understand full and incremental don't belong in the same sentance but hear me out)
The Use Case.
I am aware of Scala's current sCluster capabilities. However, it's not a viable solution if you wanted to truly loal balance two VPS accounts hosted in two different geographical locations.
So, why woulld you want to do that anyway? Especially given we have things like fast hosting and Cloudflare.
For me, here's why.
I currently live in Australia and Scala does not have any of it's super fast servers anywhere near where I am (I wish they did) - The closest native server for me is 162ms away in Seattle. This means, for my Australian visitors that cold cache hits can be a little slow.
I imagine to myself, what if I could keep two Scala VPS (On the server level not the website level) in two geographical locations in as close to in sync as possible and then use a Cloudflare loadbalancer and setup traffic steering.
Again, why?
Well Scala has super fast servers in the USA, but uses intergrated hosts in other locations that are not as beefy as the native locations. Sure, Sydney and/or Singapore don't have the beefy faster servers, but the reduced latency makes up for it. (Sydney 10ms from my location instead of 160ms+)
If I could rent two VPS accounts from Scala, One is the master and one is the slave. and the master could send incremental syncs over NFS to the slave whenever something changes, that means I could use Cloudflares traffic steering, keep Scala's faster native sever in Seattle for visitors in that region, and steer my local Australian users to the intergrated Sydney VPS for faster latency.
Yes, it would require a once off full sync the first time around. Then incrementals are only needed after that when something changes.
Or, any other way to keep two servers, or if that's technologically not possible, selected sites instead in sync and loadbalance/traffic steer them, that would be my webhosting dream come true. Especially while using a host like Scalahosting.
If I was only running static sites, I could just rent two servers and use cloudflares load balancer and the jobs done. Super easy. But we are talking WordPress sites (dynamic)
I do truly hope that someday Scala can come up with some kind of solution that will allow customers to truly have two VPS accounts in two seperate geographical locations that will allow and enable customers to use Cloudflares loadbalcing/traffic steering for dynamic sites like Wordpress. At the site or the full server level preferably.
The hosting company that can find a way to pull that off would instantly become one of the most popular webhosts out there.
AWS Lightsail? No thanks. Too much $$$$ and to complicated for the average user.
All of the above not technical possible or viable? Well, here's the alternative request/solution:
Australia is a big place, and renting a powerful VPS that's on par with the performance of Scala's native servers here in Australia would cost big money.
We are talking hundreds of dollars per month, Australian web hosts charge a massive premium for high performance servers, VPS and their licensing/software stacks.
So, for the best performance for an Australian website owner, who runs a site with "global visitors" the server location that makes the most sense is Singapore. Singapore is basically central to Australia and the rest of the world.
I guess what I am getting at here is. Scala has it's amazing native servers located in Seatle, Dallas, NewYork and Bulgaria.
The problem is none of these servers allow for the best of both worlds when it comes to the broader geographic region of Oceania and the top performance of Scala's native servers coupled with good latency.
It is for this reason, I strongly urge Scala to consider outlaying and placing one of it's native server configurations in a Singapore data centre to serve the region instead of only offering the intergrated service which does not yield as powerful or beefy servers. (According to what I have been told)
Thanks for reading :) I'm aware the synchronisation idea sounds preposterous. But, if a host could pull of some kind of solution...............A WordPress Webhost that enabled to customers to use Cloudflare traffic steering would get massive attention according to my own market research..
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