VPS's in the making...

[Jim]

We testing some software that looks pretty nice. It doesn't have cpanel but does have the ability to install any Linux OS so cpanel is possible. It does come with something much like cpanel and the developer boasts this on their site:

World's lightest and the most efficient webhosting platform. A revolutionary platform that finally makes vpses affordable to all.



Key Features

Based on Lighttpd, djbdns and pure-ftpd
Transparent Migration to Apache, if needed
9MB RSS and 15MB memory usage on bootup on openvz.
Feature complete: has http, https, smtp, pop, imap, webmail,mysql, php, cgi, dns, spam, ftp,crond, directory protect, mailing list, web site statistics
Based on php5 and mysql5
Daily Updates
Scale to million hits per day, using fastcgi
Blazing php performance using php-fastcgi
Per domain configuration of cgi or fcgi
Advanced Backup/Restore
Parked/Redirected Domains
Integrated application Installer with Growing list of applications (48)

Demo:
http://demo.lxadmin.com:7778/

We have one server up and running with it installed, but it will not be the master server for accounts when it gets offered. The eventual server will be much beefier than the test server its running on right now.

[paley]

This sounds like a good idea do you have any pricing yet or is too early to ask.

[Jim]

The work was stalled due to that software having major problems. I'm going to check again to see how far along it's come since the version we almost had up and running. It will be a nice end user control panel when things like whole vps servers disappearing overnight get fixed. It's been 2 months since this first post. I'll check back on their site to see how far along it has come. The pricing I'm trying to get is in the $20 range or lower - per vps, which makes using Plesk/cpanel pretty much impossible due to the fact that just the licensing is about $20 per vps. Licensing on this software is 50 cents per vps plus whatever control panel is used.

[Jim]

These should be available by monday. Some screenshots below. Unlike other VPS's where you buy a VPS and get access to that ONE system, here at Page-Zone the lowest plan will be two VPS's.

No cpanel but the software comes with the ability to add any of several OS's and cpanel can be set up inside one of them (centos recommended). cpanel has the added cost of an expensive license - usually about $15/mo, and high resource usage. It isn't optimized for VPS's.

The software comes with what they call "Host in a box" as one of the available vm's. Which is like cpanel/whm but built to specifically run on vm's and uses lighthttp which is a different web server than Apache and runs with a lot less memory per thread.

The Software is by far the best end user vps software currently available and has the added bonus of being low cost which allows us to offer them at low cost. Not extreme low cost I see in some places that aren't sustainable but the way this software is licensed we don't have to buy huge machines and pack them. We can get smaller <$1000 machines and put a small amount of users on each one. Starting price will be $16.99/mo (not bad for basicly 2 dedicated servers).

The nature of VPS's shuts services down when they hit the limits so I wouldn't attempt to put more than 30 low traffic sites on any 1 vps. Or 1 or 2 high traffic sites (50k hits or 50k emails a day). That is just a guess, and hasn't been tested. It might be higher.

Our regular reseller (dedicated servers) are much better configured to handle a ton of high traffic sites each because there isn't a layer which governs cpu/memory usage. Every user has access to all resources on regular servers.