Experts Help! : -- Ultimate Newbie Question...

[Rackster]

Dear ALL Experts,

I am currently using cPanel and I very convinced that I should switch.

H-Sphere is the first alternative (hopefully final) that I am looking at. However, being a total H-Sphere idiot, I have loads of questions on my mind waiting to be answered.

My current deployment is very straight forward. I am running WHM/cPanel on a Dual Xeon 2.8 w/ 1 GB ECC RAM w/ 2 x 73 GB SCSI HDD w/ RHEL 3. Whoiscart is my billing solution and I do backup daily (using cPanel's backup utility) to my secondary backup drive. All bandwidth being transfer of web content or emails or any other data transfers are being cacaluated towards this single server's transfer allocation. Now, for the shift...

I understand that H-Sphere works best when spanned across a few servers configuring each as different logical servers (maybe 1 for web server, another for mail server and perhaps another one for dns server - whatever). Now, for the questions...

1. Where on earth do all the data are being stored? On the CP server? Or web files on web server and mail files on mail server?

1.1 If the files are stored separately, how on earth am I going to backup to my secondary drive (or does H-Sphere handle this)? Do I have to have a secondary hard drive for all servers (including mail and web) to backup individual server's data?

2. Now, how are transfers calculated? When a user sends a mail, it is counted towards the mail server? And when a user surfs the web site, it is counted towards the web server? Does it mean that bandwidth consumption are calculated separately for each servers or are they counted as the CP server's bandwidth consumption?

3. My users are java professionals. I know JSP issue has been discussed and addressed. However, I heard that at the customer only forum, there is a written how-to on how to provide JSP support for the clients. Is the process automated for every new sign-ups? Or does the sys admin need to do it manually?

3.1 Will JSP support be included in like maybe the next H-Sphere release?

4. Definitely, I need to run a test box offline. Any idea how to get the demo running on box (connected to office intranet)? I need to access customer only forums to get more in-depths how-tos and other issues, can I do it without hosting a public server?

Thank you for your kind input! :)

Best Regards,
Castor

[techadmin]

Hi Castor.

I've used H-Sphere for almost 2 years and been very happy with it.

1. 'Data' is spread accross several 'Logical Servers', eg. Mail, DNS, Web & CP. A single Physical Server may have one or more logical servers setup on the box.
1.1 Modifying the existing backup script to your needs is quite easy.

2. H-Sphere analyzes the log files to determine traffic usage.

3. There is a H-Sphere 'Customer Only' How-To for JSP setup - I'll send you a PDF copy if you want.

3.1 There has been talk of extending JSP/Java support - above what the 'How-To' provides and automating the process.

4. Email Igor Seletskiy at Psoft & ask for a demo license. The instructions are pretty straight forward on how to install H-Sphere. If your H-Sphere demo server is accessible on the internet, Psoft can install H-Sphere for you.
4.1 Only Igor or a moderator can give you customer-only access.

Cheers!
-John

[Rackster]

Hi Castor.

I've used H-Sphere for almost 2 years and been very happy with it.

1. 'Data' is spread accross several 'Logical Servers', eg. Mail, DNS, Web & CP. A single Physical Server may have one or more logical servers setup on the box.
1.1 Modifying the existing backup script to your needs is quite easy.

2. H-Sphere analyzes the log files to determine traffic usage.

3. There is a H-Sphere 'Customer Only' How-To for JSP setup - I'll send you a PDF copy if you want.

3.1 There has been talk of extending JSP/Java support - above what the 'How-To' provides and automating the process.

4. Email Igor Seletskiy at Psoft & ask for a demo license. The instructions are pretty straight forward on how to install H-Sphere. If your H-Sphere demo server is accessible on the internet, Psoft can install H-Sphere for you.
4.1 Only Igor or a moderator can give you customer-only access.

Cheers!
-John

Thank you for your help, techadmin.

I'm sure the JSP Support How-to will be very useful to me.

It will be kind of you to send a copy to gohtohlee@yahoo.com.sg.

Thank you once again.

Cheers,
Castor

[rldev]

It looks as if Hspherepackages.com will be supporting this with a plugin in the near future.

[bhaskarkv]

HI John,
Can you please email me the pdf file for how to host jsp.my id is bhaskarkv@hotmail.com

Regards
K.Bhaskar


Hi Castor.

I've used H-Sphere for almost 2 years and been very happy with it.

1. 'Data' is spread accross several 'Logical Servers', eg. Mail, DNS, Web & CP. A single Physical Server may have one or more logical servers setup on the box.
1.1 Modifying the existing backup script to your needs is quite easy.

2. H-Sphere analyzes the log files to determine traffic usage.

3. There is a H-Sphere 'Customer Only' How-To for JSP setup - I'll send you a PDF copy if you want.

3.1 There has been talk of extending JSP/Java support - above what the 'How-To' provides and automating the process.

4. Email Igor Seletskiy at Psoft & ask for a demo license. The instructions are pretty straight forward on how to install H-Sphere. If your H-Sphere demo server is accessible on the internet, Psoft can install H-Sphere for you.
4.1 Only Igor or a moderator can give you customer-only access.

Cheers!
-John

[rrolfe]

It looks as if Hspherepackages.com will be supporting this with a plugin in the near future.


I am not sure how "soon" that will happen. But eventually I am sure it will.

The problem is that no one has done *ANY* beta testing on that add-on... so we have no feedback as to wether or not there are bugs.

Now while I wrote that add-on back in october... I am not going to release it until someone tests it. Its just that simple.

We have written the manuals and it works fine on our dev/testing servers but until someone else trys it.. it will stay EXACTLY where it is at.

Any takers?

[ladylinux]

Rob,

Sure "Linux and FBSD 4.11"

Francesca

[rrolfe]

Excellent. I will shoot you over the info on where to find the package.

Rob.

[dynamicnet]

Hi Rob:

I shared before that if you can let us know what tests to run, we would be very interested in testing.

Thank you.

[rrolfe]

I knew i forgot to send that info to someone.

Comming right up.

[davide]

3. There is a H-Sphere 'Customer Only' How-To for JSP setup - I'll send you a PDF copy if you want.


Is it possible to have this PDF?

Thanks in advance.