Hi Guys,


What is the best linux flavour to install H-Sphere on? in terms of reliability and ease of configuration...


Debian 3.0 http://www.debian.org/
Fedora 2 http://fedora.redhat.com/
FreeBSD 4.10 http://www.freebsd.org/
Mandrake 10 http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
RedHat 9 http://www.redhat.com/
SuSe 9.1 http://www.suse.com/
YellowDog 3.0.1 http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/


B) a quick silly question ... does H-Sphere automatically setup the hosting account and e-mail the user with username and pass after taking the payment via CC through a payment gateway? is it all automated ?

C) Does it have auto pass retrieval ? so if some1 lost their pass they can get it back by answering security question and the their pass to be E-mailed to them ?

What is the best linux flavour to install H-Sphere on? in terms of reliability and ease of configuration

I would ask Psoft this question. There are a lot of people who for one reason or the other love the particular Linux flavor and claim that it is a best thing ever :). For us RH flavors worked very well we are currently running H-sphere on Enterprise(?) version

a quick silly question ... does H-Sphere automatically setup the hosting account and e-mail the user with username and pass after taking the payment via CC through a payment gateway? is it all automated ?

Yeap completely automated activation is instant unless it trips over a red flag that you can set up. And even if it trips over a red flag it still emails the user notifying that there is a problem.


) Does it have auto pass retrieval ? so if some1 lost their pass they can get it back by answering security question and the their pass to be E-mailed to them ?

Yeap, but there is no challenge question. User has to know their user name and it emails the password to whatever email is in user's profile.

Sweet ... sounds pretty c0ol ...


A) What version of Red hat are you using?

B) Is there any sort of limitation with H-Sphere compared to any other automated Hosting packages + Cpanels? What I am trying to say is that do you just H-Sphere on its own or do you need to use somthing else on top of it?


cheers.

We use RH enterprise.

IMHO Hsphere is the most complete control panel that I've encountered. It includes everything from billing to domain management to multiple domain hosting to ticket system etc etc.

On the down side because it is complete it is also very complex so there is a steep learning curve to go through if you need to tweak things behind the scenes. By going behind the scenes I mean actually going as root into the server and move add delete customize Hsphere files. It is also pretty resource hungry so you would need a high end server dedicated just to running Hsphere install and all your web hosting servers would connect to the CP server.

As far as it needing anything else to run atop of no, you get the Plain linux server you ask psoft to install hsphere for you or you do it yourself and you are done. You would need a payment gateway or merchant account to accept payments, but that goes without saying.

I like centos / rh enterprise.

Thanks guys for getting back to me ...


A) matrosov: what does IMHO stand for? what is it ?

B) On how many servers are you guys running Hsphere?

how many server would you recommend to start with so that it could handle up to 1000 clients ? giving 200 MB on average to each account ...

C) "thelinuxguy" steve, I heard you do a good security job, if i get Hsphere installed, will you be able to take care of the security part of it for me? (of course for a fee) ... I am in Uk so if i give you admin access would it be possible to sort it out from states by SSH ... etc for me please? what I am trying to say is that Do you need to have access to the server physically or could it be done via net ?


cheers.

Fedora Core 2 is my recommendation. I thought it was going to be a sucky distro, but it actually was both a reliable, stable, and easy to use distro. RH9 is one of the suckiest pieces of junk. FreeBSD 4.10 is also a good choice, but it's not Linux, and it requires you read a bit of the manual first, but it's painless and extremely stable. You might want to take a look at Slackware and Gentoo. Those distros are a bit slicker on the part, and perform better than FC2, but they aren't solid distros.

I would honestly go with FreeBSD 4.10 if you have previous experience with the OS. It is both stable and secure out of the box and the PORTS system is a great addition. The compatibility / setup should not be any harder either way however my previous experience with *BSD makes me lean towards what I am comfortable with. If there is one of the above which you have more more experience with then that is most likely the best choice, try and stay with the OS's which have up to date patches and updates. (RHEL is also good).

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Greetings:

A. Please read http://www.psoft.net/HSdocumentation/sysadmin/preparing_servers.html#os

B. Yes, but you assign how things are auto-provisioned so you have control over fraud checks.

C. Yes.

Thank you.

matrosov: what does IMHO stand for? what is it

IMHO=In my humble opinion

On how many servers are you guys running Hsphere?

Hsphere itself needs a dedicated server i.e. you don't put any clients on a server running a control panel. The rest of cluster set up is entirely up to you. I've heard a number somewhere,but not from psoft, of 5K-7K accounts for a high end Hsphere server. Which means that if you put 200 accounts per web server it translates into 25-35 servers before you have to set up another cluster.

Greetings:

1. We do manage H-Sphere providers running H-Sphere on a single physical server.

Though, it does run best when you have multiple servers.

2. You can have H-Sphere logical services running in a VPS environment.

3. There are H-Sphere hosting providers who host upwards of 2,000 web sites on a single physical server.

Thank you.

dynamicnet so we don't get j4son confused when you are saying There are H-Sphere hosting providers who host upwards of 2,000 web sites on a single physical server you mean a physical server with Hsphere installed and nothing else on it and number of other physical webservers connected to that Hsphere server, right?:)

Greetings:

The H-Sphere provides hosting upwards of 2,000 Web sites on a single physical server have a multi-physical cluster where by the Web servers within the cluster have upwards of 2,000 Web sites on them.

The single server H-Sphere installs tend to do well with under 300 Web sites.

Thank you.

Ok :). We are talking about the same thing.