Advice for Cloud-hosting a CMS App

Mediumcube · Share | #1 (**permalink**) 11-29-2011, 08:52 AM

Hello there,

I need some advice for CMS website software I own. It is basically installed by clients on their servers or I install it for them. I'm thinking of moving it as a cloud-hosted app somewhere in the US with hosting plans for clients and would appreciate advice on what things I need to consider in setting this up. I've considered options with self-managed Linux servers at cartika and then have to think about using awbs with my own website design to connect to it and Cpanel/whm etc. I'm thinking of a cost-effective and stable way to do this as business grows without having to do major migrations in future. That is why hosting a s a cloud-app came to mind? Idea is a client picks a hosting plan for the CMS and orders it through the website. Once the order goes through the CMS is immediately auto-provisioned/installed using a sub-domain or using customer's own domain. I would appreciate pointers on how to go about this.

yangyang · #2 (**permalink**) 01-11-2012, 04:32 AM

Sounds to me you need Fantastico library: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastico_(web_hosting)

But it's in no way auto-provisioned CMS ready for use after the client went through payment. He or she needs explicitly enable Fantastico and chooses one of the CMS packages to be used on his or her domain, after logging in cpanel.

VPSWebServer. · #3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2012, 06:09 AM

In Many clouds there is a option that you create a custom template.if you get this option,first of all build a server secondly install your CMS, then convert to a template.Then, every time a client comes on board, deploy a new machine, based on the template.

simplyamazing12 · #4 (**permalink**) 01-22-2012, 01:38 PM

An unmanaged server in which you have Fantastico auto install a CMS of your choice once a partition is set up will work wonders for you.

**ScriptMan** · #5 (**permalink**) 01-22-2012, 02:48 PM

I have very minor experience at the server admin level but I can see no reason why you could not install the software as a "event triggered" CRON job. You may or may not be able to set that up in WHM as a part of the purchase package.

Of course you are talking about some custom code to do that.