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Wouldn't you be able to just use any file manager from awesome self hosted and add it to hestia/have your clients use it with ftp credentials.
Thanks, I'll look at HestiaCP too. The scriptaculous integration in VestaCP didn't look complicated fwiw. Maybe it could be ported to HestiaCP.
If I were involved in a fork I'd consider writing a python wrapper around the shell scripts, so that the scripts could be run remotely by ansible instead of having to be installed on the target system. That would eliminate the target install completely, and allow controlling 100s of VPS from a single master.
Adding file manager is the least of my concern. True, I can add it like you said. The real deal breaker for me is the absence of softaculous. Or any auto installer for that matter. Do you really expect your client to download ftp client, download WordPress, upload it, creating database, run the installer, and so on and so forth? And what if they want to create let's say 10 WordPress installation? Panel without auto installer of some sort is not worth using in commercial environment. I even make my own WordPress installer back in the day before they implement softaculous.
It's not about can or can not. Easy or hard. They already stated they WILL NOT adding softaculous, because they don't want any encrypted code in their panel.
Oh I see, yeah that makes sense. I didn't understand the issue. I wonder how difficult softaculous really is. Figure out the installation and dependency quirks for some package and write a script, not too bad. Do same thing for 500 other packages, could get tedious. Hmm.
Ah gotcha!
There are many other installers out there. I know DO, Scaleway, Vultr, etc. all have them. I don't know if any are FOSS but maybe some are. This stuff reminds me of Windows though and I'm not too enthusiastic about messing with it.
Is Litespeed really $45/month? Per server? That seems like more of an opportunity.
Depends on the version (free for only 1 domain and 2gb memory):
https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/lsws-pricing
For free there's Nginx or Open LiteSpeed in addition to Apache.
Yeah I mean the pay version, and wow, the one that big hosting servers would use is crazy expensive. What the heck does it do? It's yet another httpd that reads apache config files but uses an async model like nginx, anything else?
Being Elite costs.
What it does it does fast which is its primary selling point:
https://www.litespeedtech.com/benchmarks
It's also easier to setup than Nginx (which I could never get to work with python scripts - Nginx support couldn't point me to instructions on how to get python working with Nginx either).
Which of those benchmarks is important? It looks like they have a slightly improved wordpress cache plugin compared to apache, and most of the gain comes from the concurrency model (I'm more familiar with apache than nginx). Anyway given how cheap hardware is, and how raw requests/sec don't really matter that much with services dominated by app overhead and database operations, is the speedup really worth the license fees? The premium version costs as much as a couple of nice dedis...
Ask a provider like @Francisco why they chose a paid solution like LiteSpeed Web Server Enterprise.
The main thing I heard was that the enterprise version reads apache config files and the free version doesn't. There are other differences but I don't know which are important.