Hi! I’m currently serving my customers through a Reseller account, shared cPanel hosting. And I’m running a small VPS on the side for some projects/labs etc.
Considering getting a larger VPS f.ex. from @Francisco with included Direct Admin and moving the cPanel accounts to this.
I have maintained many Linux servers over the years, but none with cPanel or Direct Admin etc. (It’s been my/our own servers, with narrow/limited purposes, maybe managed through Puppet etc.)
So, how much more work is maintaining/updating a server running DA, compared to my regular apt update/upgrade etc.? (I’ve been running unattented upgrades successfully for some years.) I assume it has a set of required packages/services and some config that will be overwritten/updated with panel updates.
Or, should I just keep my reseller plan and let the provider do the updating/maintenance? Life if full of these hard questions …
Honestly, rolling your own DA (DirectAdmin) installation isn’t much of a hassle or any more difficult than rolling your own VPS. It’s more important however that you look into things like security (e.g. fail2ban) and backups.
That increases your odds of getting a slab for your backups in Vegas!
In all seriousness though, I’d just roll your own ‘hot’ backups on a slab or two, then some Backblaze or Glacier for the ‘cold’ backups. Should be cheap and reliable. Throw in a Hetzner storagebox if you want to go quadruple duplication mode.
To be fair a self hosted VPS doesn’t always perform better than a Shared Hosting plan that has higher-end limits (think HM, BuyShared, Ramnode…). On top of that comes license cost but obviously you’d skip on that when going with @Francisco . I’d probably still prefer a reseller plan tbh It often comes with cool extras, less hassle to maintain and can be quite easily be moved.
Also @Francisco: What’s wrong with that crazy pony lol? Blesta and DA sounds awesome
Will you also offer DA or other panel on/with reseller shared hosting plans?
(I moved to reseller plan when I discovered that unlimited wasn’t really unlimited for the regular plan, so I needed to make more sub accounts to get enough resources per account. Having separate accounts per domain is nice, but maybe not worth the extra cPanell fee …)