We know that it is not possible to project all the questions clients may ask. So, please contact us and aks your question if you are unable to find an answer below.

Is Fuscan a Cloud Hosting Solution?

Yes! When people use term "Cloud Hosting" they mean a web hosting service delivered from a group of servers (nodes) connected into a system. "Cloud Hosting" refers to another term - "Cluster Hosting". Fuscan LBC is a shared cluster filesystem (OS Installation). It is a redundant, multi node system which features high availability and dynamically scalable resources.

OK, But What Does "Cloud" mean?

Wikipedia says that "Cloud computing" or "Cloud" is a model of Internet based development and use of IT technologies. It is a computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources are provided as a service over the Internet...

When it comes to "Cloud Hosting", the easiest way to explain the term is as a IT hosting service delivered from a network of servers (servers which work as a system). Cloud Hosting (Cluster Hosting) is delivered from a fully redundant, multi-server system that utilizes virtualization technologies. If you need a simple explanation to understand what Fuscan is, jsut imagine a number of web servers servers connected as a cluster, which allow your websites, data bases, and applications to use resources from all the servers part of the network.

Fuscan enables IT companies to increase processing power, to store and maintain huge data bases and to share a large amount of memory. As a part of Fuscan, the web servers (processing Nodes) can be easily added or removed. If any server is down, your websites or applications continue to work as you can see on the Fuscan LBC Demo page.

Is Fuscan Hardware or Software?

Fuscan is a system. Fuscan LBC is a software technology which can run on different hardware (so it is software). We can install Fuscan LBC for you on a cluster of standard rackmountable servers. However SingleOS strongly recommends clients to use advanced hardawre technologies. To fully benefit of Fuscan's technology advantages you should look at our solution as a software technology that requires a certain level of IT standards to be covered. This means that you would increase your return of investment by deploying Fuscan LBC on blade servers, and this way to minimize the power consumption and to make sure you are using a Green IT Hosting technology.

Do You Offer Cloud Hosting Services?

We aren't a web hosting company. We provide web hosting providers with ability to create their own clouds. If you need to build your own cloud, you can use Fuscan LBC and EHA in your own data center or to colocate it with any IT hosting provider. Of course SingleOS recommends its clients to use the services of data centers and enterprise hosting providers that have already tested and implemented Fuscan technology. To learn more which data centers, managed and dedicated hosting providers have already been dectified (or are in process of certifying) as a Fuscan product partners please contact us.

Can I Use Fuscan To Maintain a Virtual Data Center?

"Yes", you can. SingleOS is working with Parallels on integrating Parallels Virtuozzo Containers with Fuscan LBC. Virtuozzo empowers IT hosting, data storage and applications service providers to create and manage mutiple isolated virtual environments.

What Kind of OS Can I Run on Fuscan LBC?

Fuscan LBC utilizes Red Hat Cluster Suite and it is designed for maximum uptime. We suggest our clients to run CentOS on their Fuscan clusters, but other Linux OS can also be deployed on Fuscan.

How Much Time Does It Take To Deploy New Nodes On Fuscan LBC?

It takes a fw minutes to add new processin nodes to the system.

Can I Install Windows on Fuscan?

No! Fuscan is made to work with Linux based operating systems.

What Storage Does Fuscan Use?

Fuscan utilize a centralized storage area network (SAN) over InfiniBand.

Can I Install Windows on Fuscan?

No! Fuscan is made to work with Linux based distributions.

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