How hard is VPS?

[RaceJunkie]

I am running about 10 websites on a reseller. Most of them small, one gets about 6gigs of traffic a month basic html site. The main site a forum vBulletin 3.5.4
April Stats:
Members: 963, Active Members: 405
Most users ever online was 116, 04-24-2006 at 10:51 PM
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Unique visitors:7600 The forum is busy on an average 21 to 50 users online at a time. I have FlashChat integrated and also run phpadsNew

1. What plan would suit me well for growth? (This fourm will get bigger each year)
2. I was wondering how much of a learning curve VPS is?
3. Once it is all set up is it as easy to manage as a reseller?
4. The only sites that I host are theones that I build for friends.

[AlexKall]

3. technicaly its like your reseller but your incharge and can install things on the server, but it can be as easy as your reseller account is now if you buy a control panel with the package, the support can help you with most things.

You do however have more control and that can make it harder, its no fun to have a VPS without fiddling with it till its perfect like you want it, right?

You have root access (in other words, your the administrator of that server with the higest powers, the power trip is great by the way )

[RaceJunkie]

3. technicaly its like your reseller but your incharge and can install things on the server, but it can be as easy as your reseller account is now if you buy a control panel with the package, the support can help you with most things.

You do however have more control and that can make it harder, its no fun to have a VPS without fiddling with it till its perfect like you want it, right?

You have root access (in other words, your the administrator of that server with the higest powers, the power trip is great by the way )

So if I order the Freedom plan the c/p comes already instaled?
FREE Control Panel of your choice
(Interworx,Cpanel, Direct Admin, Plesk)

I am a user of cPanel right now. Would it be the best choice of the ones listed. Or is one better?

[Adam Clarke]

Hi Racejunkie,

I think that if you are happy with cpanel then it might be the one for you as the root WHM has an impressive range of functions that you can tweak without having to use the command line but I do also love plesk as it is slick, fast and is really solid.

My two choices would come down to plesk or cpanel.

[Vin DSL]

Speaking of cPanel... I think one of the benefits of doing the reseller thing is all your clients will have their own cPanel. This isn't possible with VPS, or is it?!?!?!

[rainboy]

Speaking of cPanel... I think one of the benefits of doing the reseller thing is all your clients will have their own cPanel. This isn't possible with VPS, or is it?!?!?!

Of course it possible with VPS, with VPS you can do exactly the same thing as JPC is doing with reseller hosting to your customers, you have full control.

So all your customers have a Cpanel, and you have WHM (web host manager) to configure all the setting.

So with a VPS you are even more in control over Cpanel/WHM as you are on a reseller box, it's just the next step.

Kindest regards,
Patrick

[RaceJunkie]

What plan would suit me well for growth?

[rainboy]

In my opinion, any (except the discovery plan if you want Cpanel/WHM)

You can upgrade whenever needed. So no need to worry if you took a smaller one and need a bit more.

However i did choose Apollo to have just a bit more of ram available, just makes me feel a bit more secure to have one step higher as i really need, even when knowing a upgrade would just take seconds.

Kindest regards,
Patrick