What would you like to see in a freshly delivered VPS regardless of CP supplier? (aka Plesky CPs)
Another week of skirmishes with my new Plesk VPS, which has been humping Virtuozzo's backup/restore as if it was on heat; identifiable in the computer room by it's infrared heat signature that is a tunnel back to my Mac Plesktop, nee Desktop which is now full of typed notes and screen captures as if Plesk has used it for a sick bag. Those "Please wait. Loading ..." messages seemingly waiting for me to be pronounced dead before returning with "are you sure?" and then "1-0" to Plesk.
In an effort NOT to get shot, Plesk the wolf crying messenger repeatedly says "Service is not available now, probably your Plesk is misconfigured." and in doing so misdirects blame toward the configuration as if it Plesk had no responsibility for administering that configuration and maintaining it's integrity. Just as poor workmen shouldn't blame their tools neither should a poor tool blame the workman using it O.o
Parallel's are now cutting and running toward a v9.0 beta in their trial and error pursuit to get things right. Though being skeptical what I see is an attempt to reset customer complaints generated from an in-house testing by-pass, likely caused by the deaths of former testers waiting for things to load. Maybe they're thinking public hostages held in Virtual Prison Systems are by their very incarceration not going anywhere and will eventually report everything anyway, only the intent is not to fix the current release, but to drive the next version.
It's not that I don't know UNIX, it's that I have found a nemisis in Plesk the time kidnapping chameleon among Control Panels.
So, what would you like to see in a freshly delivered VPS regardless of Control Panel supplier?
Tags: control panels, feedback, plesk, vps
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This topic was started by squiggle
on October 27th, 2008. 12 members have voted on one or more of the 5 answers.
Tags: control panels, feedback, plesk, vps
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I think Plesk's new slogan should be: "Plesk: The Time Kidnapping Chameleon Among Control Panels." That's all too accurate from my experience.
Today WITHOUT WARNING Plesk deactivated all my domains and services then emailed me it had done this some 12 days earlier, which it had not. That email was immediately followed by another warning me my domains were about to expire and would be deactivated by that 12 day old deadline. Hmmm!
Attempts to restart them resulted in the utter nonsense error that the domain involved had expired. Moreover, Plesk would not allow me to change the "validity period" it had set, even after multiple tries and a reboot. It took a second reboot before I was able to reactivate them all.
Plesk is a menace, but Pararells have recently acquired Psoft's hsphere, a control panel that's never given me any problems in a shared hosting environment. I dunno how it would perform with a VPS, but I'd be a willing guinea pig should Modwest like to find out.
It would be awesomely incredible if Modwest provided a lower cost VPS solution modeled around Host-In-A-Box/LXAdmin. I use this over at VPSLink.com on a tiny 64MB slice and it scales unbelievably well for such limited memory and just plain works for $7.95/month.
For very simple sites or hosting it's difficult to justify $49.95/month for Modwest VPS and while the $8.95 shared is a good deal having root access/more process control etc. is really nice.
Even a Modwest $19.95 128MB VPS with Host-In-A-Box would probably lure me away from VPSLink.com for good.
Interesting. The dollar exchange rates are pushing up costs for international customers and making hosting less attractive, something like this could change that.
VPS is a big jump, For anyone who may already be hosting 3 or 4 domains, the jump to a VPS will be a nice improvement, with a single point of control.
Micro VPS, which could host a handful of sites. This provides a great alternative between shared and standard vps.