In this article I’m going to discuss/review about ISPsystem, a rapid-growing Web Hosting Software Company. It provides innovated solutions for Web Hosting Needs. Recently I came to know two of its state of the art web hosting software. They are VDSmanager – Virtual Private Servers management system and ISPmanager – web hosting control panel.

Hope you’ll find this review useful!

VDSmanager – Virtual Private Servers Management System

VDSmanager is a Web Control Panel for management of Virtual Private Servers (VPS, VDS), which makes it possible to divide one physical server into multiple isolated virtual machines, and each one performing as an independent, stand alone-dedicated server.

VDSmanager is a tool for FreeBSD and Linux servers, which allows to set resources (CPU, RAM, disk space) quota for each VPS account.

The VPS enables multiple customers to share the expense of hardware and network connections (and completely eliminate the hassle of maintaining it all) without sacrificing performance or the freedom to run whatever software you choose. VPS multiple customers share hardware, they do not share software.

When purchasing a VPS you are given full root/Administrator super user access to the system and it runs almost in the same way that a dedicated machine would. Each VPS can be independently rebooted, shutdown or started up via our VPS control panel to manage your system online.

Features of VDSmanager

The VDSmanager Control Panel provides three access levels each of them having its appropriate roles and responsibilities. VDSmanager’s user hierarchy enables higher level users to access the accounts of their users below. Administrators can log in to any reseller account, their customer’s account and their individual domains.

• Absolute root access: VDS Admin has an absolute access to all the files stored on the server, including the ones from preinstalled software package. Administrator can install any other software compatible with the software used; reboot Virtual Dedicated Server from shell or via web-browser.

• Preinstalled software: The number of preinstalled software packages is unlimited and will be automatically mount into the VDS file system.

• Flexible configuration: Each VDS has certain limits on processor time, RAM, CPU and disk space usage, number of simultaneously running processes, file descriptors, IP packages. You can change these parameters without rebooting your VDS.

• Hierarchy of access: VDSmanager users – Admin, Reseller, VDS Owner.

• Scalability: VDSmanager has an open API (application programming interface). So you can use all features of the control panel in your programs.

VDSmanager advantages

• Due to the shared memory multiprocessing technology, one application may run many times on many servers. That means the parallel applications will consume less RAM.

• Shared users file system (private disk and disk template) eliminates file duplication and the time it takes to move large files over networks.

• They also provide centralized operating system updating.

ISPmanager – Web Hosting Control Panel

ISPmanager is one of the leading web server control panels on the market. The control panel allows you to manage your entire web-server through a user friendly and comprehensive multi-language web interface. With the click of a mouse you can manage users, hosting packages, mail boxes, databases and much more from one centralized location in a simple and intuitive way.

ISPmanager Control Panel provides multi-level access to administrative features for increased management flexibility. The multi-level system makes ISPmanager suitable for business web-hosting and personal use.

Features of ISPmanager

The ISPmanager Control Panel provides five login levels with each level having its appropriate roles and responsibilities. ISPmanager’s user hierarchy allows higher level users to access the accounts of their users below. Administrators can drill down into any reseller account, their customer’s account and finally their individual domains.

• Operating systems: Operating Systems supported are Red Hat, Fedora Core, FreeBSD, Debian, and CentOS.

• Traffic: Traffic calculating and quotas support.

• Mail servers: Mail Servers supported are Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, and CommuniGatePro.

• Web servers: Web Servers supported are Apache and nginx.

• Database servers: Database(DB) servers supported are MySQL and PostgreSQL.

• Plug-ins and API: ISPmanager has plug-ins and an open Application Programming Interface (API) that has been utilized to integrate and deploy new services.

ISPmanager Advantages

• The program product does not change an operating system configuration.

• Low system resources consuming.

• ISPmanager is an Apache web-server module, web-server settings allow to set an address and URL for administrative access.

• Installation script supports setting and configuration of www-server, mail server, and database server.