Hello, I need some opinions on these server features. What do you think of them? I am planning on opening my own hosting company. The software that will be used is Esim WebHost Manager. Do you think that this would be good for hosting websites?

OS Support

RedHat Linux 7.1


Product Features

500+ Domain Support
SMP Support
3 Control Panels
Name-based Support
IP-based Support
Plan Template Builder


Web Server

Supports .shtml extensions
suEXEC
SSL
Generate Certificate
cgi-bin
Custom Log Files
Log Analysis
Front Page Extensions
Password Protection


Mail Server

Aliases
Responders
Vacation Messages
Mail Forwarding
Spam Filters
POP3
IMAP
Web-based email (SquirrelMail)
FTP Manager

Edit Configuration
Anonymous FTP


Scripting Tools

Perl
Python
PHP4


Site Quotas & Usage

Disk Quota
Disk Usage
User Quota


Backup & Restore

Backup Manager Network
Access
Telnet


DNS Management

DNS Manager
Automated Setup


File Management

File Manager
Upload Database Support
mySQL


User Management

User Manager
Search User


Site Statistics

Analog
Traffic Monitoring

What type of CPU and CPU speed are you planning on using as well as Ram Amount, Drive type and size. These will have a big effect on whether you can safely claim 500+ domains. If these are small acounts without heavy traffic you could get away with a 866 CPU with 256 ram and a decent 7200 RPM IDE drive. However if you are planning on getting heavy sites you would have to raise these to a 1 Gig CPU possibly Dual CPU's , 1 gig of Ram minimum and SCSI drives, in order to be able to serve them properly.

The above features you listed are fairly common when using Linux/Unix and Apache and any type of commercial control panel, but these will only operate as good as the server they are running on.

it is a...
AMD duron
1 GHz
512mb RAM
40 gig HD
300 gigs of transfer per month.

AMD Package II at
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