CloudLinux is an operating system for the shared web hosting environment.

Shared web hosting is one of the many types of web hosting used in the world today. In shared hosting, many websites reside in a single server, and therefore all the websites and data share the resources of that same server.

This type of hosting is associated with the ‘bad neighbor effect’ where by a website is exposed to security threats associated with the other website hosted in the same server. Cloudlinux operating system was created to solve this problem.

CloudLinux improves stability of a shared web hosting server using the following:

Lightweight Virtual Environment
CloudLinux contains a lightweight virtual environment which allows each account to be isolated from each other. This enables system administrators to control CPU memory and ‘concurrent connection’ available to each account. By ‘isolating’ each account in the server, one account can take down the whole server by preventing abuse. Hence the problem caused by the ‘bad neighbor’ effect is solved.

MySQL Governor
Cloudlinux also comes with a MySQL governor which allows strict control of the MySQL resources available to each account.

Setuid Root Binaries
Setuid root binaries are accesses right used by Unix that allows a user to run an executable file using the owners executable permission. Setuid root binaries are usually used by hackers to increase their privileges and gain access to the system. With CloudLinux the setuid root binaries are out of reach for hackers making it even more secure since the hackers cannot scan the server for vulnerable files and figuring out who the other server users are.

Compatibility
Cloudlinux can be used alongside may operating systems including CentOS as well as many control panels including cPanel and Plesk. This makes CloudLinux easy to deploy as well as manage.

The above CloudLinux features helps to improve the overall stability of the shared web hosting environment.

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