Looking for Testers – HestiaCP Reseller Hosting Plugin

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• luckypenguin Member

  June 2

  Claude servers are working overtime these days

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• dennisadmod Member

  June 2

  Interested in testing this — we work with quite a few hosting environments and HestiaCP's been growing in popularity as a lighter alternative to cPanel, so reseller functionality is a common ask we hear from smaller hosting companies.

  A couple of questions before testing begins:

  • Will the plugin hook into HestiaCP's existing API or does it expose its own endpoints for provisioning?
  • Any plans for per-reseller resource usage reporting from the admin side?

  Happy to put it through its paces on a test VPS and report back on June 6.
• Andru Member

  June 2

  Looks good.
• diwakerd Member

  June 2

  @dennisadmod said:
  Interested in testing this — we work with quite a few hosting environments and HestiaCP's been growing in popularity as a lighter alternative to cPanel, so reseller functionality is a common ask we hear from smaller hosting companies.

  A couple of questions before testing begins:

  • Will the plugin hook into HestiaCP's existing API or does it expose its own endpoints for provisioning?
  • Any plans for per-reseller resource usage reporting from the admin side?

  Happy to put it through its paces on a test VPS and report back on June 6.

  It hooks into HestiaCP’s existing internals and does not expose a separate provisioning API of its own.

  Provisioning is handled through plugin CLI commands such as v-add-reseller-user, v-add-reseller-hosting-package, and others. These commands then call native HestiaCP commands like v-add-user, v-add-user-package, v-change-user-package, etc.

  We originally developed this plugin for our own infrastructure and will continue to maintain it. We run a highly customized and modified HestiaCP environment, but the plugin itself is designed to work with a standard HestiaCP installation.

  The code will be published on GitHub soon.

  next 3 months Future plans include:

  • Live pooled resource enforcement (not only during user creation), including automatic blocking or suspension when a reseller exceeds disk, bandwidth, or user limits.
  • A detailed reseller usage breakdown page for administrators.
  • Resource usage reporting per reseller.
  • Quota warning notifications for resellers.
  • Additional automation and management tools based on community feedback.
  • Reseller can take offsite backup to ftp or sftp of their users

  today i will test it finally on my own then release it tomorrow at github

  Thank you for offering to test it. We look forward to your feedback after testing begins on June 6.
• niznet Member

  June 2

  Well, at least it's interesting . I never actually thought people would attempt to heavily modify HestiaCP with patching alone, I thought it gonna be a forked project. The last modification I did was adding a PHP settings UI and a Redis socket per user for my own shared hosting setup, but I left that for the Enhance panel a few months ago. It is just too much work to try to make it function like cpanel/directadmin because hestiacp doesn't seems to be intended used like those two panel.

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• Falzo Member

  June 2

  @niznet said:
  ... because hestiacp doesn't seems to be intended used like those two panel.

  Exactly, thanks for understanding!
• diwakerd Member

  June 2

  @niznet said:
  Well, at least it's interesting . I never actually thought people would attempt to heavily modify HestiaCP with patching alone, I thought it gonna be a forked project. The last modification I did was adding a PHP settings UI and a Redis socket per user for my own shared hosting setup, but I left that for the Enhance panel a few months ago. It is just too much work to try to make it function like cpanel/directadmin because hestiacp doesn't seems to be intended used like those two panel.

  We can fork HestiaCP, but we are intentionally not doing so at this time. As long as the HestiaCP developers continue to actively maintain and support the project, we prefer to build customizations and extensions on top of it rather than maintain our own fork.

  If we see that HestiaCP is no longer being actively supported or developed, we will certainly consider creating and maintaining our own fork to ensure long-term stability, security, and continued development.
• diwakerd Member

  June 2

  @niznet said:
  Well, at least it's interesting . I never actually thought people would attempt to heavily modify HestiaCP with patching alone, I thought it gonna be a forked project. The last modification I did was adding a PHP settings UI and a Redis socket per user for my own shared hosting setup, but I left that for the Enhance panel a few months ago. It is just too much work to try to make it function like cpanel/directadmin because hestiacp doesn't seems to be intended used like those two panel.

  If you can share the code for your Redis modifications, it would be very helpful for us. It would save us a significant amount of time compared to building everything from scratch.

  I am planning to implement something similar very soon, so having a reference implementation would greatly speed up the development process.
• niznet Member

  June 2

  @diwakerd said: Redis modifications

  You can check it out at: https://github.com/iniznet/hcpp-redis

  It's not a production ready and doesn't have a proper UI/UX since I only tested it on my own setup.

  Please be very careful with security as i don't think it's a very safe project because i used AI to browse the HestiaCP codebase so i could piece things together faster. I also took some unsafe shortcuts since heck why not, i was the only one using it for fun . I had the AI comment everything so i wouldn't forget how it works years later.

  Credit goes to Steveorevo, who created https://github.com/virtuosoft-dev/hestiacp-pluginable. It's a cool project that allows me to patch HestiaCP like WordPress, and it's the only reason I was able to make this plugin happen.