Coming from a Windows/Helm environment and wanting something similar (that is NOT a Parallels product!) in Linux. Most of the CP's seem server centric. I would like to be able to control multiple servers, some with just web & ftp, others with just mysql or mail, all provisioned from a centralized location. In my reading it seems H-Sphere could do this, but its out of the running. Paid or Open Source is fine.

Also, what forums (other then WHT) are good places to hang out and learn whats going on in the Linux hosting world.

Check out this web site : http://www.ispsystem.com/en/.

Ran into them at webhostingday in Germany, thet have a booth at hostingcon.

Well if you mean controlling more than one node from the same linux control panel then i know of two right off the top of my head that can do this.

vePortal, Allows multiple node control,

HyperVM, Allows multiple node control, But nothing from LxLabs gets developed anymore so i wouldn't go with it, It's good if your looking for a free panel though.

I have taken a closer look at HyperVm/Kloxo this weekend and was impressed. I like Kloxo, but I'm also concerned about its checkered past and the questions of of its survival. Seems like they are trying and traffic is picking up in their forums. A really impressive piece of software.

I am looking at HyperVM/Kloxo again. We had LXadmin installed across 8 or 10 servers last time at this year when I got concerned about the developer's ability to support the product in the long term. I tried to get a sourcecode license but they weren't interested at the time. So I selected HSphere instead. What a disaster it's been.

HSphere was selected because of its ability to be configured in a load balanced setup. Well, yes and no. The various ownership transitions (first Psoft, then Comodo, then SWsoft/Parallels) coupled with various half-baked code changes has left the documentation out of sync, and a lot of the code broken. Unfortunately, the only close replacement for HSphere is Kloxo.

What I'm most interested in is running Kloxo servers on vps servers to facilitate backups and hardware upgrades. I'm not sure how to proceed with this architecture. My understanding is that HyperVM is meant to be used in conjunction with Kloxo only if you want to complete isolated Kloxo installs within a vps...that is, you lose the distributed nature of Kloxo.

Kloxo is impressive. When I was testing it there wasn't much I didn't like about it especially when compared to HSphere. Adding a node in HSphere is a pain. It's not that smooth a process and stuff tends to break (at least in our experience)...add to that the fact that there's a bunch of legacy scripts sitting around and troubleshooting becomes very time consuming. IIRC, with LXadmin adding a node was a simple affair and all you had to do was prepare the node for remote root access, provide the credentials to LXadmin and handled everything from the CP. No CLI required.

Yeah, I can see why Kloxo (and HyperVM) get bad press these days, but "HELLO" all of the source is available. How could you not like that?? People should be all over those platforms.

Coming from a Windows/Helm 3 enviroment, Kloxo is exactly what I'm looking for in a Linux environment. Being able to distribute services amongst multiple servers was one of Helms best features. Guess I'll have to seriously be learning PHP now :D

Kloxo is good, but its development is almost at a standstill and I really worry about its future.

Coming from a Windows/Helm environment and wanting something similar (that is NOT a Parallels product!) in Linux. Most of the CP's seem server centric. I would like to be able to control multiple servers, some with just web & ftp, others with just mysql or mail, all provisioned from a centralized location. In my reading it seems H-Sphere could do this, but its out of the running. Paid or Open Source is fine.

Also, what forums (other then WHT) are good places to hang out and learn whats going on in the Linux hosting world.

Hosting Controller releases its first beta of individual Linux control panel HCNIX which has the ability to use servers in a cluster environment.

HCNIX is in beta and would be containing a lot of bugs. I would not recommend that. A similar functionality can be achieved using WHM/Cpanel with WHMCS.

Kloxo is good, but its development is almost at a standstill and I really worry about its future.

I don't really think LxLabs has a future anymore. I think that was thrown away when the Owner committed suicide :gone:

LxLabs has a very short term future, at the moment the software appears to work.
But don't think it will be that only till a better solution comes around the corner.

Kloxo seems working fine for me on my test server and I tried creating multiple accounts without any problem. The only problem I had with it is the api system and bandwidth/disk qouta because I was trying to make something using kloxo api

Kloxo development is not dead. It is being designed by new team members.

However, I don't think I will use it on production servers because of the lack of official supporters

Apart from HSphere, Hosting Controller allows you to manage multiple Linux & Windows servers in a cluster.

Hosting Controller releases its first beta of individual Linux control panel HCNIX which has the ability to use servers in a cluster environment.
I have not fully tested this new product but it has lots of potential to grow but unfortunately it is in BETA mode currently.

Interworx is running on cluster environment too.

I would recommend you to hire developers/admins to run and maintain kloxo for you:)

Guess I'll have to seriously be learning PHP now :D