Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Hosting Software and Control Panels : Which control panel should I use?

[Ironlung]

I am wanting to get off this cobalt RaQ3i and on to a linux box, but I am tring to find a control panel that would let my customers do everything that the RaQ would let them do. I have looked at Plesk (which I heard never works right), Sphera, and H-Sphere. If anyone has worked with these or any other panels please let me know. Thanks

[Jag]

I would recommend shpera my self, i dint like plesk and hspere seemed boring and not very useful for real sites.

[stratius-webmaster]

where can I find information on shpera. Ive been looking and cant find a web site anywhere.

[Ironlung]

You can find information at http://www.sphera.com the only thing that I dont like is the $4 per month per user. Anyone know about the http://www.smarthostingtools.com panel?

[Jag]

Your a little wrong in the pricing plan. Its not $4 per mo. per user. Its $4 per month per virtual server. Makeone server for your own copamny put 200 sites on it and its still just $4 becuase you made only one virtual server.

[JoeB]

As I understood, Sphera splits a dedicated server in to many virtual servers. Each virtual server has its own control panel and each costs $4/month.

So I could then use the one of the virtual server to host 200 domains. But would each domain have its own control panel?

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Also does anyone have any first-hand experiance with Plesk or Sphera?

[Jag]

Yes ,each main machine has a admin panel for you, you can create the Vs's which have thier own admin panel and they can create sites which have thier own panel too. All three are nice panels and you can build a server farm accross many different networks and control them all from one server. I would contact them for a demo through it, they will walk you through everything, very nice demo.

[robwitz]

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