Hello:

I haven't seen a whole lot on these boards on H-Sphere, so I thought I would start a thread about it.

Please post your experiences if you have it installed. Feel free to post any questions, or thoughts about it.

I personally have just had H-Sphere installed. I have not RTFM yet, but I am working on it. It does not seem to be something you can just install and start using. It seems to be quite complicated, but very powerful.

Has anyone out there used H-Sphere?

Has anyone read the manual, and or fully explored the demo?

For anyone that doesn't know, their website is:
http://www.psoft.net

I know Wizards Hosting is testing it out, and Carlos really seems to like it. I believe he's talked about it in previous threads about H-Sphere. Do and search and see what you come up with...

There isn't really a whole lot out there about H-Sphere...
At least not that I can find.
What is out there is scattered accross different posts.
A lot of it is just one little line in a huge thread too.

I want to make this the place to talk about it.

Thanks for the post.

Anyone else have anything to say about HSphere?

Well .. posts have a meaning, you will find lots of CPanel posts becuase people have questions regarding it, or features on it

As more people use HSphere and have certain (and specific) questions, you will see more posts

Best way to start is, if you have a question about a feature .. ask it .. and see if anybody answers it :)

or you can visit http://forums.psoft.net

Any negative / bad things about hsphere?

How much does it cost? Did you see any info at their web site?

Originally posted by diyoha
How much does it cost? Did you see any info at their web site?
Pricing info can be found here:
http://www.psoft.net/h_sphere2_pricing.html

It is linked from the following page:
http://www.psoft.net/h_sphere2_info.html#pricing

Thanks!

I don't know about everyone else, but I would thoroughly enjoy it if everyone that has any experience with H-Sphere 2 would post their experiences with it. I tested out H-Sphere 1 over a year and a half ago, but ended up going with a different software. It looks like HS 2 is a much more developed product, and I am very interested in how it runs.

I really think it would be a great asset to this forum if we had an in-depth discussion about it!

Hello,

I took a look at the H-Sphere site and it looks pretty comprehensive as a CP.

My biggest problem is the ambiguity with support issues. Here is an experp from their pricing page:

Support and upgrade policies
Anual support & upgrade policy is available for a 20% of the total license fee. This fee covers free technical support coverage & free upgrades for a year.
--
Additional technical support
Per Incident Support can be purchased at the price of $75 per incident. Our staff will remotely connect to your system to solve any problem you might encounter.

I am not sure I understand the main difference between Technical support and Additional technical support. Unless the remote access is the only difference?

David

Originally posted by mpope
I don't know about everyone else, but I would thoroughly enjoy it if everyone that has any experience with H-Sphere 2 would post their experiences with it. I tested out H-Sphere 1 over a year and a half ago, but ended up going with a different software. It looks like HS 2 is a much more developed product, and I am very interested in how it runs.

I really think it would be a great asset to this forum if we had an in-depth discussion about it!

What were the problems you had with HS1? Please do share. I am thinking of getting HS2 soon

The demo seems pretty cool. But what bothers me is that is is slow ...

David

OK ...

We have now several dedicated customers using it, and will be setting up our own cluster soon.

HSphere has proven to be quite nice, it's not the type of Control Panel that you put on a Celeron 800 with 256MB of ram, you need some power to run it, actually they even advise for a custer of 3 servers .. we are doing it with 5.

It has a few rought spots, like any new control panel, but it's improving and it sure does the job nicely :)

As a client of wizardshosting, I got a quick chance to test it out. I thought I might as well tel lyou what I thought from a clients point of view.

1. After using CPanel ever since I've had a hosting account, H-Sphere was a bit overwhelming at first. It has more features then CPanel (it seems to at least) and things aren't really as clear as they are in CPanel. It takes a bit of getting used to, but at the end it is all worth it.

2. In my opinion, It seem to be far more reliable then CPanel. Of course, I didn't test it over a long period of time so this is hard to say, but it seems to be working great. I've been keeping an eye on the PSoft forums and the mods there seem great and they have answered most questions that have been posted there. From my experience with CPanel, things seemed to break after upgrades and I would be without key features untell the developers fixed it. This started to get very annoying. With H-Sphere, this doesn't seem to be the case. All the releases seem to be tested before hand and only released after they happy. But, Only time will tell.

All in all, I can't wait to get moved over from CPanel. Seem likes CPanel finally has some good compition. :)

Hope this helped a bit...

-Woody

Originally posted by Woody
[...] and things aren't really as clear as they are in CPanel. It takes a bit of getting used to, but at the end it is all worth it.[...]

Hehe .. indeed .. remember, I designed the Cpanel navigation as we know it .. now hopefully we will be able to do the same for hsphere :D

Originally posted by muppie


What were the problems you had with HS1? Please do share. I am thinking of getting HS2 soon

HS1 was not very stable, of course this could be because I was running it :D It had a ton of features, and I really wanted to use it, but things just didn't work out. I liked their pricing a lot better back then, it was only $.50 per account :D

Originally posted by CRego3D


Hehe .. indeed .. remember, I designed the Cpanel navigation as we know it .. now hopefully we will be able to do the same for hsphere :D

I'd just like to say that I appreciate you including the default cpanel skins in the cpanel distribution. I think people give you too much flak about it... I personally think it is great (better than Plesk / Ensim / HS2). You know, that iconic skin is more or less _the_ reason I chose cpanel over the others. ( I know... I probably should have looked more at stability and performance... but cpanel's looks just won me over!)

There is no doubt in my mind that you increased cpanel's market share 10x by letting them use that skin!

I haven't had a chance to tell you that, so I figured I'd just let you know...

Originally posted by mpope


I'd just like to say that I appreciate you including the default cpanel skins in the cpanel distribution. I think people give you too much flak about it... I personally think it is great (better than Plesk / Ensim / HS2). You know, that iconic skin is more or less _the_ reason I chose cpanel over the others. ( I know... I probably should have looked more at stability and performance... but cpanel's looks just won me over!)

There is no doubt in my mind that you increased cpanel's market share 10x by letting them use that skin!

I haven't had a chance to tell you that, so I figured I'd just let you know...

Thank you .. that's very kind of you, but you houdl actually thank Bill from VDI for nagging me to release the Iconic theme, see the default theme was goign to be the public one, and the iconic was going to be for my customers only :) .. but hey, we all help each others

At the moment I am working on redesigning this new control panel (HSphere), it's quite a challenge, as it has allot more files ot change, but I'm sure it will do wonders for it, our customers would be quite upset if we just moved them to it and not give them the esquisite "look" of the current CPanel :)

Originally posted by mpope
I'd just like to say that I appreciate you including the default cpanel skins in the cpanel distribution. I think people give you too much flak about it... I personally think it is great (better than Plesk / Ensim / HS2).I think WebHosting Magazine review described it as "garish"... I'm not sure if that's good or bad. :rolleyes: (sorry Carlos :D )

Matt

WHM is propably one of the most bias magazines i have ever read and is even more bias towards its advertisers

To be honest I wouldnt refer to webhostmagaize as a quality interpretation of the industry that most of us our in

Actually I would recommend not wasting your time to read it, it may save your life if you dont

Joe

Well, I like cpanel's themes! :)

I agree WHMagazine isn't the greatest. I think it's because they focus on the huge web hosts. Most of the things they write about have no meaning on the way I do business, being 1,000 times smaller than their smallest target host.

I'd really like to see a magazine come out geared toward small hosts, I think it would do really well!

Originally posted by Site5-Matt
I think WebHosting Magazine review described it as "garish"... I'm not sure if that's good or bad. :rolleyes: (sorry Carlos :D )

Matt

What was that saying ?? .. at least people are "talking" about it .. hehe :D

But in one thing Jeff is right .. WHM is so out of touch with OUR hosting community it's not even funny .. they seem to be lobbyists for the big kahunas and furget the mid sized companies :(

Yeah.. I agree.

If you have your own data center (or better yet, more than one) then WHM probably speaks to you. If you're like the other hundred thousand companies out there and lease space or have a dedicated server - 95% of the material really doesn't apply - unless you just want to hear about what all of the huge companies in the industry are doing.

I remember when they did the "hosting awards" or whatever it was where they picked the top companies in the industry. They were all relatively large companies (Verio, Affinity, etc) - and to tell you the truth... I wouldn't host with any of them. :rolleyes:

Oh well... you get what you pay for I suppose. ;)

Matt

I'd be real surprised if that Mag even knows about WHT. Half the big guys are falling, and the others arent too far behind them. So the only reason I read the mag is so to know how the big boys are thinking, which I then know how NOT to think. They are failing, I dont want to think like them.

Of course, what would they think of us? They think they are better than us? They can keep thinking that, while we keep taking their business..

Well, at the rate the big boys are goign out of business, WHM will have to start addressing us real soon ... by "default" .. heheh :D

I like Web Hosting Magazine. Their articles are always informative, and written by experts in the field.

I always recommend the magazine to people I know in the IT field that I can benefit from it. If you don't think you can benefit from it, then don't read it.

Originally posted by bitserve
I like Web Hosting Magazine. Their articles are always informative, and written by experts in the field.

I always recommend the magazine to people I know in the IT field that I can benefit from it. If you don't think you can benefit from it, then don't read it.

Thank you for enlightening us all :rolleyes:

Originally posted by CRego3D
At the moment I am working on redesigning this new control panel (HSphere), it's quite a challenge, as it has allot more files ot change, but I'm sure it will do wonders for it, our customers would be quite upset if we just moved them to it and not give them the esquisite "look" of the current CPanel :)

Ah ooh... Carlos, share me your skin or I will skin you off :D
(Long deep breath) ... now, my coming H-Sphere will surely look boring :(

cheers,
:beer:

Originally posted by Site5-Matt
Yeah.. I agree.

If you have your own data center (or better yet, more than one) then WHM probably speaks to you. If you're like the other hundred thousand companies out there and lease space or have a dedicated server - 95% of the material really doesn't apply - unless you just want to hear about what all of the huge companies in the industry are doing.

I remember when they did the "hosting awards" or whatever it was where they picked the top companies in the industry. They were all relatively large companies (Verio, Affinity, etc) - and to tell you the truth... I wouldn't host with any of them. :rolleyes:

Oh well... you get what you pay for I suppose. ;)

Matt


true.. true :)

i think, they did an article for ChampionHost ... :p

Originally posted by dektong


Ah ooh... Carlos, share me your skin or I will skin you off :D


Sure .. just move your servers over :D

There's more than one way to skin a Carlos :D