I notice the cPanel VPS has been available for quite some time, and is free. (still?)

Anyways, I was wondering if any hosts have had experience with this software. I'm looking to start offering VPS services, but would this be a good option? I'm extremely fluent in the cPanel server setup and administration; I understand that the inner workings would be a bit different, and unsupported. Each VPS would have it's own cPanel/WHM setup, no?

I've done a bit of searching within this category without much to show in terms of stability, options, etc. Just wondering if it's worth looking into.

Regards,
Matt

Without any docs or even a statement from DarkOrb about the software even existing, I've been discouraged from trying it as well.

I'd really love to give it a shot.

Figured it's been out so long.. may have been tested a bit, heh.

I'll try it out on a dual xeon @ RS and see how it goes. Hoping it's still free, heh. I guess if they don't acknowledge that it exists, they probably aren't charging for it, yet.

Regards,
Matt

I was actually just looking into buying a server and testing this out too :)

However I do not plan on putting any kinda clients sites on it, just run it and see how it goes.

You can actually install the CPanel VPS system without having CPanel on your server, I tried it on my freshly installed linux machine and it did work (except for the fact that I didn't set up the machine to boot to the VPS and I didn't have unpartitioned space).

- Matt

cpanel uses an open source vps program at

http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc

There are others too, off the top of my head there is user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ and I believe freevsd.org is another.

Would you be required to purchase a cPanel license for each VPS?

In those pictures of the VPS management interface, it shows that it's "installing cPanel" -- would a normal cPanel license be needed for each VPS, then?

Rather, I'll find out soon, heh.

Regards,
Matt

I have never used the cpanel vps, but I would assume you would not need a cpanel lisc for each. Once set up a vps would be similar to a dedicated server, from there you can add whatever software you want.

Interesting heh, I've been thinking about getting into the VPS market myself.

Yes you do need a license for every VPS, but they are discounted. Talk to Daniel at EffectOnline. Great guy and $25.00 is as low as you can get a VPS license for :).

Originally posted by comphosting
Yes you do need a license for every VPS, but they are discounted. Talk to Daniel at EffectOnline. Great guy and $25.00 is as low as you can get a VPS license for :).

If I could just get the installation to work =) heh.

Thank you for the info!

Regards,
Matt