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[Daniel Z]

Hi I'm planning to start a shared reseller business in a VPS.

Is there any way to monitor the ram and hd usage of every shared account???.


Thanks.

[devonblzx]

Hard drive usage is easy with a good control panel. They use quotas. RAM/CPU usage can be much harder to monitor. Running PHP in FastCGI as the specific user is a good way of being able to somewhat monitor resources and increase security. Although it can still be hard to monitor things such as plain HTML but usually dynamic hosting (PHP/MySQL) will be your heavy usage. Don't plan on just jumping in and start hosting if you have never managed a server before. You will need to do some research and maybe start with a managed server so you have a company who can assist you.

[coderiser]

youll want to make some reporting scripts that flag offending users to you rather than having to continiously monitor every process that runs on your server.

if you are using a reseller plan you should speak with them about how they handle issues so you know what your walking into to ahead of time

[Daniel Z]

Hey, thank you very much for your suggestions friends, it help me allot.

What I understand is that running php in fastcgi could let me make some reporting scripts, is that correct?, if yes, can you point me to some sample scrpts.

Thans.

[NeilAgg]

I think you need to look into installing cPanel on your VPS

[Deroba]

cPanel will easily tell which are the abusive clients... per day... or you can check by concurrent connections, etc.

[TheJoker]

I would personally run fastcgi or suphp, but not dso. I know some might disagree with this security step, but that's my theory as a non-sysadmin.

[TheJoker]

I would personally run fastcgi or suphp, but not dso. I know some might disagree with this security step, but that's my theory as a non-sysadmin. Rochen, who specializes in Joomla hosting, runs suphp. Some well regarded hosts do run dso, though.

[Daniel Z]

Thank you all for your suggestions, it is more clear now.

Daniel.