qm2 is safe for now, I have bigger fish to fry.
Been working a lot with external cheap VPSes, results are mixed but not awful.
Also running a trial of Directadmin on what is currently called web4 but should probably get a dwarf name because I don't anticipate making it a H-Sphere box. Reason: I'm getting sick of Ensim on grumpy, the last upgrade to PHP using ART repository was really a disaster. So I was thinking (with Vam's help) of doing a two step migration from grumpy to a cpanel box, then to directadmin.
Directadmin's pros include
- Vam likes it (which is big, because he's being very helpful in sysadmin support),
- it has a lifetime license (plusses and minuses there)
- is cheaper than cPanel monthly/yearly even w/o lifetime license
I have replaced the 256 GB drives on the "web4" box with two 1 TB drives, and even though I cannot add to the RAM short of replacing the MB, it should be okay. I had Vam install DA there. We did a couple of test migrations, and they worked, but there are some missing features, especially the inability to add jailed FTP subaccounts automatically via the control panel.
Also, reading the DA forums leads me to believe the DA team has less depth than the cPanel team. While I like to hack around as much as the next guy, I just don't have the time, and I (perhaps naively) believe I'll have less to do if I choose cPanel. My current thinking is to install Xen on the box, and then make one honking big VPS inside running cPanel. This is because Xen itself doesn't have a huge footprint, and cPanel for VPS has a lower footprint and license fee, so the tradeoff probably works. Big question is, can the box support all the sites on grumpy? Rambling: it's probably about time I learned cPanel, no?
