| | VcubeV is an OpenVPN-based solution designed to build and operate a multisourced infrastructure. Unlike its predecessor - a single-sourced infrastructure - where all applications and services run within a single physical environment and are supported by a single provider, VcubeV allows to manage a hosting platform and software architecture independently of each other.
With multisourced infrastructure, you are not limited to one provider or one datacenter anymore - you are free to mix and match hosting plans from different providers to better suit your business needs. And you are free to change your hosting as often as you like, for all or just a handful of your hosts at a time, - all without applications even knowing about it. Without requiring any modification, your applications will still be able communicate with each other but instead of a physical LAN, it's now a virtual LAN which sits on top of public Internet links. The hosts will retain their virtual IP address no matter where they are located and will be able to connect to VcubeV network even from behind NAT and through most-restrictive firewalls, which makes it an ideal solution where static IP addresses are not available. Since it's based on OpenVPN, a well-established open-source technology, it is readily available on multiple operating systems, including Linux, Windows, *BSD, Mac OS X and Solaris. VcubeV was developed by CohesiveFT and has been running in our production since summer of 2007. CohesiveFT open-sourced the code for dynamic routing daemon (cube-routed) under Cohesive's CPAL 1.0 License (Common Public Attribution License).
You can find a full HOWTO in the February 2008 issue of the Linux Journal or online at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9915. | |
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