Website Server Placement
Enhance offers advanced logic for provisioning websites, ensuring optimal use of your infrastructure.
Global Website Server Placement
This setting controls where new websites are provisioned across servers.
- Least load: Places the website on the server with the lowest historical load, provided the server is up.
- Least websites: Places the website on the server with the fewest websites, ideal for scaling as new servers receive all new websites.
- Random: Randomly selects a server for website placement, ensuring even distribution if you deploy a large cluster at once.
Note: Disabled server roles are ignored for placement.
To Configure Global Website Server Placement:
- Click Settings in the left sidebar.
- Go to Platform settings and scroll to Server placement.
Tip: Server placement rules are overridden by plan server groups and dedicated servers.
Force Website Server Placement
Override the platform’s placement logic when adding a website.
Tip: This option is only available to the Master Organization. Resellers and end users will have their websites placed according to the platform's logic.
To Override Server Placement for a Website:
- Click Websites in the left sidebar.
- Select Add website.
- Scroll to Server placement, select your server location, and click Add.
Disable Website Placement on a Server
Prevent new websites from being provisioned to a specific server. Existing websites on the server will remain unaffected.
To Disable Website Placement:
- Click Servers in the left sidebar.
- Select the server where you want to stop website placement.
- Scroll to Roles and, for each tab (excluding DNS), click Disable placement.
- Confirm by clicking Disable.
