I think I will get Hsphere, rather than Cpanel, though I am more familiar with Cpanel and like Cpanel very much.

I am not a reseller and will not host a lot websites. My plan is to host less than 50 in the short term, never succeed 100 in the long term.

If I get Hpshere 50 licenses now for about 300 dollar. I own it and can sell it if my business fail or I decide to use another control panel down the road.

1. So in fact, I think the HSphere cost for me is less than 100 dollar a year.

2. another side, of course, is the functionality and support from the software vendor. I believe both Hsphere and Cpanel are great.

3. Since I only host less than 50 websites and intend to manage them carefully. I only need a simple and cheap control panel. So the billing, etc. function of the Hsphere is a waste for me.

any good free control panel?

thanks.

I definately agree that if you only plan on hosting 50-100 clients then CPanel may not be your best choice as far as price goes (unless you go with a NOC like Burst that offers licenses for very cheap).

I personally use CPanel, but I have only heard good things about H-Sphere.

You may also want to consider getting a Rackshack box with a free Plesk or Ensim license?


As for free control panels, I've heard of one called Webmin, though I've never used it myself.

It is more complicated than CPanel. Resellers have problem learning it too.

User panel is better and has lot of features.

I myself had problem enabling and disabling some features and limitting thers. For example a customer can even remove its primary domain (removing all files). He can even add more domains (host more domains in his account).

As another example I wanted to remove Contact and Billing options from User panel (it sends emails to end users from server's main domain and resellers do not like this. They do not want their customers to receive emails from main hosting company).

CPanel is more straight in my opinion. I ordered another CPanel server today while a H-Sphere was cheaper. If you need a H-Sphere I sugget you to look at eishost.com (everydayinternetsolutions) . The owner is here by the ID "everyday" or "everydayinternet".

Mac

I do agree that there is a larger learning curve with H Sphere but it is due to the fact that there are so many more options than C Panel.

We have created some custom docs and worked with psofts writers to come up with easily understandable ways to do things. Once you are up to speed with H Sphere you'll never go back to another control panel.

Hsphere offers better control over domain management I feel. As a consumer I preferred Hsphere over Cpanel because of it's ability to have real multiple domain hosting, not just pointers that cpanel has.

If HSphere was sending emails from the main domain of the setup, then that's more of a problem with you using your hosting company name in the hostname of the machine than anything else, same with CPanel when emails come from nobody@server.hostname.com etc.

As for removing billing, this can now be done in HSphere, you can turn all billing functionality off.

I'm interested in H-Sphere but I'd like to know how many sites can be put in a single H-Sphere server (e.g. P4 with 512 MB RAM)? Can it handle 25 or more large sites (some with lots of mySQL activity)?

It's very subjective, but I don't think HSphere would be your problem with 25 large sites with lots of mysql activity - mysql would be your problem, regardless of control panel used.

You should be able to put that many sites and more on a dedicated H Sphere server.

Thanks for the feedback. So which one has the best pricing for H-Sphere license? :D

Please feel free to contact me. I'm interested to buy license for 30 domains to get started.

Then give http://eishost.com a try.

Mac

http://www.psoft.net/resellers.php

Yeah H-Sphere is VERY nice!