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Introducing Levarion: Billing/VPS/Dedi/Cloud Panel

concerto49

concerto49

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Announcement:

Levarion serves as a base panel for a set of different modules:

- Billing / Support

- VPS

- Cloud

- Web Hosting

- Monitoring

- Dedicated Hosting

- DNS

- Many more

- Will have an API to enable adding 3rd party modules

 

The Billing, VPS and Dedicated Module will be built in-house as a replacement for some more commonly used panels around here.

 

We will be considering building other modules in-house or partnering with vendors.

 

Primary Features:

- Java and MongoDB based. Clustering supported out of the box. No it does not hog memory. Verified and tested. Works on OpenVZ. Will be using a modified OpenJDK.

- WHMCS / HostBill integration

- cPanel integration

- SmartOS based KVM - data deduplication  (saves space), better resource management (bursting, throttling io/cpu, etc), fast provisioning, etc...

- Debian / Ubuntu / CentOS OpenVZ

- LXC (this will be primary)

- Migration scripts (SolusVM, etc)

- Proper support with proper SLAs

- Theme and customization support

- Proper IPv6 support

- Proper GUI installer and error handling

- Source code available on certain plans with NDA

- Two factor auth

 

Currently the VPS module will be done first with more to come.

 

Screenshots and more information will follow. Beta will also follow.

 

Pricing for VPS portion:

$10/month per slave (slaves will not run a web server, but a direct network connection to the master)

 

If any provider wishes to sign up as a partner to help with specs, gain access to early features, better pricing etc, please contact.

 

Note: this didn't pop up as a result of the recent incidents. Has been in the planning for over a month.
 
john

john

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So many new panels, some diversity is good :). Is it developed by Cloud Shards?
 
concerto49

concerto49

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john said:
So many new panels, some diversity is good :). Is it developed by Cloud Shards?
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Cloud Shards will be a customer, internally so to speak. Part of the team at Cloud Shards will take part in helping with the development yes. Others will also be involved as it is a rather bigger project with new initiatives. We're not only building a replacement, but creating new features, such as using SmartOS.
 
Aldryic C'boas

Aldryic C'boas

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concerto49 said:
I'm not sure what you're referring to here.
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I'm referring to this:

concerto49 said:
What problems do you have with Java? Many enterprise applications these days are Java based. Followed by .NET.
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To elaborate - you're using an example of "everyone uses it, it must be good" (it doesn't matter what industry you try to apply that rule to) while positing a panel to replace SolusVM.. a panel that everyone is using.  Bit of a logic disconnect there is all.  Also a simple joke, don't read so much into it, and just take the chuckle it was meant to give. 
 
kaniini

kaniini

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concerto49 said:
What problems do you have with Java? Many enterprise applications these days are Java based. Followed by .NET.
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There's certainly nothing wrong with having a CRM as a Java application running in a servlet container... the part that makes me question the success of this product is the MongoDB usage, really.
 
concerto49

concerto49

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kaniini said:
There's certainly nothing wrong with having a CRM as a Java application running in a servlet container... the part that makes me question the success of this product is the MongoDB usage, really.
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Hence: what is wrong with MongoDB? Is it because it's not SQL? At least provide an argument please.
 
kaniini

kaniini

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concerto49 said:
Hence: what is wrong with MongoDB? Is it because it's not SQL? At least provide an argument please.
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MongoDB has had an atrocious security record with DoS vulnerabilities caused by malformed BSON and JSON payloads.  Nothing wrong with NoSQL, I'd just rather use CouchDB or something with a more robust availability record.
 
concerto49

concerto49

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joepie91

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concerto49 said:
Hence: what is wrong with MongoDB? Is it because it's not SQL? At least provide an argument please.
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That the automatic silent discarding of data beyond a total size of 4GB or so on 32-bits systems was only mentioned in an easy-to-overlook place on the site, doesn't exactly inspire much confidence in me as to the reliability of the rest of MongoDB.
 
concerto49

concerto49

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joepie91 said:
That the automatic silent discarding of data beyond a total size of 4GB or so on 32-bits systems was only mentioned in an easy-to-overlook place on the site, doesn't exactly inspire much confidence in me as to the reliability of the rest of MongoDB.
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That I agree with has been a major problem to many people that got struck. Will definitely be providing bundled templates on release and/or instructions/documentations with notice to use 64bit only.

Not that we can't change, but CouchDB etc has also been evaluated and everything does have pros and cons.
 
J

joepie91

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concerto49 said:
That I agree with has been a major problem to many people that got struck. Will definitely be providing bundled templates on release and/or instructions/documentations with notice to use 64bit only.

Not that we can't change, but CouchDB etc has also been evaluated and everything does have pros and cons.
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Not so much refering to that data loss issue in particular, as it is a warning that there may very well be other undocumented 'manholes' in MongoDB.

I'm actually curious now, what are your thoughts on CouchDB overall?
 
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