Future OS Compatibility

[imperio]

As Vesta is back in active development, we need to identify if it is worth focusing on multiple Linux flavors, or if we should focus on a single one that gets better support and documentation. What would be your preference?
As the new maintainers, we believe that focusing on a single OS such as Ubuntu will enable us to provide a better and more stable product, however the community input is important to drive our roadmap.

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[deanhills]

Hi Imperio. I can see your point, however CentOS is also a major player with Vesta Panel. Sometimes you will find VPS Hosts who are iffy on their architecture of Debian if their interest is more on the CentOS side. I've just come across one such example. I cannot work with Debian and this is how I actually navigated to Vesta CP. Am overjoyed to hear that it is working on development again.

So maybe that is worth considering. Would be nice if we can get one panel that fits at least the major Linux distributions: CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu.

[Shaman2]

If it is difficult for you to support several systems, then you may choose Ubuntu and CentOS, since, for example, HestiaCP supports Debian

[RevengeFNF]

There are already Vesta alternatives for Ubuntu and Debian.

If you want to focus on a single distro, i hope it is Centos and it's variants (Almalinux and Rocky Linux).

[deanhills]

I'd hoped that once VestaCP is up and running again, that there will only be one VestaCP. If there are alternatives, maybe they can continue, but served by this discussion Forum so the left hand always knows what the right hand is doing.

[WQYU]

I think you should support all of the ones that you have been supporting in the past and not chose one and the others not as that leaves anyone who has been using the other OS templates in danger. Also doing this anyone who wants to switch may not be able to as they are currently locked into a contract and if they switch package it could change how much they pay or forfeit the price to increase the resources to use a different OS template or switch provider.


I also think that if you support one OS template and not any others that you have in the past, you’re basically limiting yourself to the available users who are willing to make a donation or purchase a month to month, yearly or lifetime subscription. Who would donate to a project if they can’t use it or let alone, purchase a month-to-month, yearly, or lifetime subscription.

[javayim]

Ubuntu.! 🏆

[desfire]

Being honest, just let go. You have abandoned for years this project just to start again, what guarantee us this time around you will keep on updating? Just close and join hestiacp or myvestcp team to keep improving them instead of having 3 different panels being maintained with the same core.

[Stage4000]

Desfire isn't wrong. I think you have pretty well screwed yourself. You have shown that not only are you more than willing to abandon the project, but that you won't even manage PRs when there are hundreds of security flaws in your project. If your life isn't stable enough to commit to the project then yea Desfire is completely correct join the Hestia team instead. As for me, I won't be using or recommending Vesta until the following criteria are met:
1) No more blatant vulnerabilities.
2) At least 5 years of commitment.
3) At least 10 years of you merging PRs and actually maintaining stuff.

You have lost my trust when you abandoned the project I relied on. You can't just disappear and leave something like this to rot, especially a web control panel that people rely on. Even if you had other stuff going on, there is no reason you couldn't have spent a couple hours managing PRs, I see no excuse for taking a 4 year total vacation.

[dorianr]

i'd go with Centos.

But as guys above mentioned, the most important thing is continuity... for now i use Vesta only for private, side projects like LiftSC because i'm afraid to put it into work with my clients