Kloxo/LxAdmin vs cPanel/WHM

Couple of posts ago I mentioned a new VPS. I’ve been working with a cPanel VPS in work for a long time now, and ran WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) self-configured at home so I was fairly confident I could install and run a basic system on the VPS with my own control panel…

Wrong.

IPTables, BIND, various mail servers… It fast became unmanageable, even when I gave up and installed Webmin. I think my general advice to the community is: Be sure of your LAMP (see, linux not windows) expertise before you try anything like this.

So I reimaged the VPS using LxAdmin (now renamed Kloxo). I should have listened to the advice from the hosting company. Stability issues from the outset. I’m sure there was a configuration issue, but I was having to PuTTY into the server and restart services on a semi-regular basis.

I swallowed my pride, let the moths out of my wallet and finally got cPanel. You know, even considering its cost, I think it’s under-rated. Considering management time, time = money, I’m definitely saving money by paying. Odd sentence, eh?

On a related note, myprohost.com have been very supportive and helpful during my confusion and migration to different systems. Thumbs up to them.

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2 Responses to “Kloxo/LxAdmin vs cPanel/WHM”

  1. Maria Howard Says:
    May 5th, 2010 at 05:14

    It is also easy to backup and transfer all your websites from one server to another server if you have cPanel installed

  2. Dylan Lopez Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 18:31

    if you are going to get a VPS server make sure that it has cPanel coz it makes server maintennance easier