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Hello VestaCP Users

We are planning to move to VestaCP but before we do we need to know a few things about what you awesome users think and whether our use case fits the bill, below are the details.

We run a small hosting company, at the moment we have a few servers and use Plesk 12, however our users love our service hate our systems, they need to login to Plesk 12, the client area and any other system we offer, all with different accounts as no SSO is setup and all looking completely different from each other, in other words not very user friendly.

Also our company is heavily funded, and our systems are still in development, so paying for Plesk 12 and the servers etc it gets quite expensive.

We are hoping to completely get rid of Plesk 12 (I know they have API's) but Plesk 12 is expensive but also a very complex system for offering simple hosting with DB, FTP and web space management etc, VestaCP seems to have very little and pretty much offers the bare minimum with an attractive API (so far).

So we need to know what you guys think,

Is VestaCP secure?
Is it a good choice for our hosting company to switch too?
Have you guys had any issues relating to this product?
and are there anything you think we should know before making this huge move?

We will be testing everything thoroughly first with test accounts, and then move each domain over one at a time, it may take awhile but it means our customer sites, databases and everything like that does not get ruined in the process, it also gives our customers piece of mind, knowing we are doing things individually with a phone call before we begin.

So what do you guys think of our use case, is it a good idea / bad idea or anything else.

I will look forward to your Responses

With Regards
Chris Russell

I think it's is. I run a hosting company (NodeHost.ca) and my servers are fully using VestaCP with a custom panel using the API. It's not hard to make a custom panel you can tweak and modify when you need and use the API to handle the server side stuff. Everything is just as reliable as any other platform, but remember to test updates fully before rolling out to all servers.

CLAR101
if you want to run your business and company just by taking opinion from us at Forums, you are going to have a hard luck. You need to define what kind of users you are going to host... yes it matters alot.

If they are your "known" clients and just want to host plain business websites, you should be good. But if they are script peddlers trying to experiment around or trying to break into your node on purpose, VestaCP is not for you.

Then there will be customers who just need cPanel... why ? because they have been using it all this time and ohhh it has awesome file manager which they can't miss.

So as I said... first define your customers... classify them, evaluate "threat" levels... and You need to read alot... alot here on this forum and other resources to learn the basic problems and how to counter them