22nd November 2007
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LXAdmin on VPS package
Hi, I'm on the verge of taking a Linux VPS package, however CPanel costs an additional £60, while LXAdmin is thrown in for free. Any feedback on LXAdmin from anyone? I would be doing only the most basic administration on the server, emails and DNS etc to set up new sites, and possibly installing the occasional piece of software. Therefore, I only need a simple, easy to use interface.
One other thing is that LXAdmin comes with Bogofilter for spam filtering, while CPanel comes with Spam Assassin - any thoughts on the relative merits of these anti spam programs?
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22nd November 2007
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If it's free, ask yourself why.
You say you only need to ... and then go on to list virtually everything you need a Control Panel for.....
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22nd November 2007
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LXAdmin is cheap on lease, what package is chucked in with the vps?
$10 a month for the hypervm and cp. not bad, but whats the catch?
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22nd November 2007
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Jamie - you're right, I do want a reasonable amount of control of my VPS, so a good control panel is important. LXAdmin seems to have had pretty good feedback from what i can gather, and is lightweight too (using 15MBish compared to 128MB for CPanel).
The hosting providers have thrown in LXAdmin free with my VPS deal which is £150 a year for 10GB diskpace, plus lots of other features I would be looking for. This seems like an extremely good price from a provider who have been really responsive so far to queries etc.
The main issue preventing me from charging in is my lack of knowledge of the LXAdmin control panel - whereas if i go for cPanel, there is a lot of online support and documentation.....
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22nd November 2007
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LXAdmin is very buggy, and very little testing between releases and often hard to get a hold of any support. I also find it very counter-intuitive
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22nd November 2007
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Originally Posted by nicky77
Jamie - you're right, I do want a reasonable amount of control of my VPS, so a good control panel is important. LXAdmin seems to have had pretty good feedback from what i can gather, and is lightweight too (using 15MBish compared to 128MB for CPanel).
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No idea on LXA's footprint, but DirectAdmin on a VPS works ok at 128Mb, but CPanel requires 256.
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22nd November 2007
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The key difference is lxadmin uses lighttpd or apache, the figures they boast are based on lighttpd. I'd much prefer DirectAdmin, and it's relatively cheap on VPS anyway
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22nd November 2007
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Lxadmin is getting better - its fast and is updated frequently. Have you seen the documentation for it? Client and admin docs are at
http://doc.lxlabs.com/lxadmin/
reasonably well documented for most functions.
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22nd November 2007
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CPanel £60? Find a better host, CPanel on a VPS shouldn't be anywhere near as much as that, unless of course you meant £6, or you mean £60 per year.
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22nd November 2007
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£60 a month for cpanel seems abit much, Most probley year.
If it is a month then dang thats one expensive cheap host your with! You can buy a fully dedicated server for that price these days.
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22nd November 2007
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As the OP talsk about £150 for a VPS for a year or +60 for one with Cpanel/WHM then its safe to assume thats an Annual pice
£210/yr aka 17.50/month, for a CPanel capable VPS is in the realms of "so cheap it's a con or cr@p" ...
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23rd November 2007
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As the OP talsk about £150 for a VPS for a year or +60 for one with Cpanel/WHM then its safe to assume thats an Annual pice
£210/yr aka 17.50/month, for a CPanel capable VPS is in the realms of "so cheap it's a con or cr@p" ... |
Glad I wasn't the only one thinking that.
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25th November 2007
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If you only need to do basic tasks then LXAdmin should be fine - it only uses 15MB RAM so you will have much more available for your software.
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28th November 2007
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LXAdmin is very buggy, and very little testing between releases and often hard to get a hold of any support. I also find it very counter-intuitive
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Very is an understatement, i'd go as far to say its almost completely illogical but thats just IMO.
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