Well, SolusVM Version 2; To say its been highly talked about recently would be an understatement. The good news is that development is well underway for something that we feel will change the way that the majority of people will offer and manage VPS Hosting.
The idea behind this first email is not to give you a full feature list (Sorry!) but to let you know some of the major differences between v1 and v2.
High Availability
SolusVM 2 will offer HA support in the form of SAN storage. Each cluster will function with a minimum of two nodes allowing you to offer redundancy at an extremely low cost. More information will be published in update #3
Virtualization Types
As you know SolusVM 1 supports 3 virtualization types, however SolusVM 2 will support 4 virtualization types as standard! Unfortunately we can't tell you what the 4th type is until a further update.
HVM Templating
Xen & KVM templates will be supported in SolusVM 2. More information will be published in update #4.
DNS Management
Your clients will get the added bonus of being able to manage their forward and reverse DNS directly from their client area. You also get the option to assign IPv4/IPv6 addresses to a client so RDNS can be managed from the client area without a virtual server. (DNS only account).
Scriptability
This is the important one (to most of you anyway). Every action in the control panel will have an associated hook. These hooks will allow you to override or add extra code to the function you want to hook into.
Graphs
This really comes under scriptability but we know a lot of our customers like graphs!. SolusVM 2 offers a scriptable system where you can add custom graphing/data collection scripts into the system and display the resulting graphs throughout the client/admin areas. This is a large improvement over the SolusVM 1 system thats hard coded and not always accurate.
Client Themes (GUI Templates)
Another highly requested feature was the ability to assign a client area theme to a specific client or a reseller to have their own client area theme. This is now possible in SolusVM 2 due to a generic style login page that is not attached to a specific theme (still fully customisable) .
API
The Admin, Reseller & Client API's will no longer be limited. Any functions that can be performed in the panel can also be performed via the API.
Pricing
There WILL NOT be any price increases for our current customers. If you use SolusVM 1, the upgrade is free and you automatically have grandfather rights over any pricing changes.
Support
24/7 support will continue to be free to all clients via our support system. New support options will be available once SolusVM 2 is released as stable. These will include 24/7 telephone support and live chat.
SolusVM 1 EOL
SolusVM 1 will reach its end of life no sooner than 18 months after the first stable release of SolusVM 2.
In the next update we will be giving you live demo access (This is also a feature you can offer to your own potential clients) to the SolusVM 2 client area and more detailed information on the massive array of features!
Best Regards,
All the team at Soluslabs.
