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Looking for a Lightweight Tool to Manage VPS Servers Across Different Providers
Hi everyponyone),
I’m looking for recommendations on a lightweight tool to manage multiple VPS servers hosted on different providers. I want something that allows me to:
1)Monitor server load and network speed.
2)Reboot servers when needed.
3)Avoid using Webmin (prefer something simpler).
Ideally, the tool should be easy to set up and use, with a clean interface. If anyone has experience with such tools, I’d appreciate your suggestions!
Thanks in advance! 
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RunCloud (paid) or CloudPanel (free).
Even though it dosent hit all your points, I want to suggest Komodo
https://komo.do
It's a very powerful (mostly) docker management interface across multiple agents.
Free & Open Source & Lightweight & In Active Development
https://cockpit-project.org/ or https://nezha.wiki/en_US/ might fit the bill
+1 nezha
any idea how much a typical install of nezha uses in cpu & memory?
anyone can share experience on this nezha ?
Suggest going to the next level and automating everything. Read: Ansible!
One central control node. No control panels on remote servers.
A bit of a learning curve, yes, but worth the time saved later. Life's too short not to do this and go full out auto - if you run your own or clients' servers, IMHO
Seems pretty lightweight (non docker install of the dashboard)
Around 42MB RAM and 0,1% CPU on a netcup pico
Only 2 Servers attached, so idk how it scales
For comparison, it is using less than either beszel or uptimekuma on the same server
Personally I will not use it, because I dont trust the "open a terminal from the web" features
While Ansible is great, its no monitoring
this is a serious understatement
I love learning new things and going through docs but the ansible docs are awful.
at least we know some info, thank you very much for sharing it
i do not have like hundred of VM, only a dozen but need something to monitoring all in one place
If you are below 15 VMs go for https://hetrixtools.com/
+1
You can make Ansible do, directly or not, whatever you desire. Heck, I've used it to build multiple Drupal websites and add contant and practically run them. But that's me, I'm too old, life's to short, to do things manually. And that's the common denominator of all control panels. Heck, that's what they are for: make you do things manually, click, click! Fire and forget is my poison!
Okay, monitoring, monitoring, monitoring... and then what? Is that your end game, monitoring your VMs?
Think it through to the end, why don't you?
Me? I don't want to monitor anything. Boooring! I want everything to run. Be it 5 VMs or hundreds. And if one or more stop running (a predefined parameter, treshold it breeched), I want something (e.g. Ansible or similar) to fix things and notify me that there was an incident and things it was fixed (e g. the malfunctioning VM destroyed and a new instance spun up in its place or something like that). Just saying...
Okay, I admit, understatement of the month
And agreed, Ansible official documentation sucks ass and... well, you know what
But $7 or $9 (I forget the price) fixes that: "Ansible for Dev Ops" ebook by guru Gerling. All you need to get going, for starters
One other thing: 15 VMs, you say? Is that all you will ever need? The point is not what you have now, but what you are planning for in the foreseeable future.
Disclaimer: I run but 5 VMs only. Nothing critical, testing stuff. Could run them manually. Except that I have 2,000+ domains registered (for starters), working on spinning up an affiliate marketing network of - you guessed it! - 2,000+ websites! Good thing I'd drank in Gerling's words a decade ago and learned to automate with Ansible, huh?
Yeah, learning curve was and still is a bitch (playing with AI now), but it was worth every single minute spent playing with Ansible. Ditto AI nowadays.
due to respect, i understand it
but please use your word more wisely
i know you keep it as more casual or joking but i think not so politely
you are also senior at here
sorry if this comment offense you
No offense taken. No idea which word(s) YOU find offensive, though. Enlighten me, please. Thank you