New here with some questions

[Hooper]

I am looking at control panels for a project of mine.

Here is the server breakdown,

4U dual pentium4 3.2 gig cpu with 4 gigs of ram on board.

There are 8 250Gig Maxtor 7200rpm hard drives.


IF I were to install this cp onto this server, Would I have to instal it for each drive, (just asking, some require you to do so)

#2. DOES this work with 1 ip address, or MUST I have at least 2.

#3. Does this cp work with clusters, or is each new server a new install.

#4. Does this cp do anything with billing or is that all by hand.

#5. Does this cp do anything with bandwidth billing, or bill for overages automatically.


What kind of a setup would you recommend for the server that I have as in boot space, var, home, that sort of stuff.

[Hooper]

Also I see this


At least one external IP address (NAT/LAN-based systems will NOT work)



Now, I have a full T1 here, but I have a router setup , I have all the requests for the Server forwarding port to the server LAN ip address.


Would this cp panel work with that?

[ProWebUK]

Originally posted by Hooper
IF I were to install this cp onto this server, Would I have to instal it for each drive, (just asking, some require you to do so)


Nope, it can utilise as many drives as you want, if you set it up... although 1 is fine and what it will use as default.


Originally posted by Hooper
#2. DOES this work with 1 ip address, or MUST I have at least 2.


Need 1 for the license, which must be external... (not a router/internal/"fake" IP), if you want to run your own nameservers you will need 2 IP addresses minimum.


Originally posted by Hooper
#3. Does this cp work with clusters, or is each new server a new install.

At the moment new install each system, multi server control is coming soon I believe - will let John or Mark confirm that.


Originally posted by Hooper
#4. Does this cp do anything with billing or is that all by hand.

Its got an API, which allows scripts to be developed to do this, and there are numerous billing/automation scripts available. Its not covered in the standard setup.


Originally posted by Hooper
#5. Does this cp do anything with bandwidth billing, or bill for overages automatically.

As stated above, billing is not managed in any way by DA... its not designed for that... the options for overselling are there for resellers, and you can decide whether users are allowed to exceed limits or not.


Originally posted by Hooper
What kind of a setup would you recommend for the server that I have as in boot space, var, home, that sort of stuff.

Ill be honest with you and say im quite amazed to see an 8x250GB HD setup in a hosting environment... as for partitionining.... you *could* have a drive for each partition and have spares left over...!

Is it a RAID setup?

4 drives would work... 8 is a little much... of course you can use the others for backup even if you dont have RAID..... but for 8 drives of actual "unique" data for use with DA (none being used as backup/RAID)... I'm not sure!

Chris

[DirectAdmin Support]

#1 one copy per server, not per drive. You'd only need 1 copy of DA.

#2 1 IP will work fine as long as you can set ns1 and ns2 to use the same IP at your registrar. Or else you can just use an external DNS server.

#3 1 copy per server. Clustering has not been implemented yet.

#4 There are 3rd party billing modules that are fully integrated. Check out the 3rd party software section of the forum.

#5 DA does watch the bandwidth usage but will only suspend accounts if that setting is enabled. The 3rd party billing systems would be the ones that would bill for overages.

We don't see 8 drives in a system too often so this can be open to interpretation :) The final setup is up to you. You'll probably want a RAID 5 setup for optimum performance and reliability/redundancy.

one setup:

3 disks, RAID 5
   /home
3 disks, RAID 5
   /var
2 disks, RAID 1
   /
   /tmp (set to noexec)
   /boot

Thats just a really rough setup plenty of room to change things around.. the raid controllers would cost a bit of $$ but, based on your current system, that doesn't seem to be an issue :)

John

[Hooper]

See where Im at the NORMAL webhosting companies arent even webhosting companies, theyre resellers for the city's ONE real webhosting firm. They sell 5 megs of space and 2 gigs of bandwidth for $19.95 a month.


With 2 terrabytes of space and up to 40mbps of bandwidth from Time Warner Telecom, I can offer 5 gigs of storage and 50 gigs of bandwidth for $19.95 and clean house.


I've talked with several (as in over 100 easily) companies that said as soon as I am up to give them a call asap and they will transfer.


So here the market is astounding.


I Live in Charlotte NC and own charlottewebhosting.com

:D


Problem is right now just to see this thing working with my own domains (about 600) I am trying to install it on my home line a full T1.


What I meant about the lan thing is this, I have 7 computers here, as in

192.168.1.101
192.168.1.102

and so on...


The linux server is on 192.168.1.101 and in the router everything that is a web request, wehter it be http, mysql, ftp, ssh, anything is directed to that lan address.

I had already installed Hsphere on it with no problems, but HSphere looks like crap, is confusing and at $4 per user, thats just rediculous.



IF I have the port forwarding correctly, could this cp be used.

[Hooper]

Yes 8 hard drives, 250 gig Maxtor 7200rpm.


I have a "Promise" card for them, as for doing "raid" I am still... dont laugh, reading my linux books on how to set it up.


My biggest thing is I have the money to burn, I have the equipment, show me how to do it :)

[Hooper]

Any way i can just call or drop the server off to you to have it installed?

I routineley do drives from NYC to Florida on a weekly basis.

[nobaloney]

Originally posted by Hooper
The linux server is on 192.168.1.101 and in the router everything that is a web request, wehter it be http, mysql, ftp, ssh, anything is directed to that lan address.
That's a non-routable address and won't work with DA. DA requires a routable address on the server.

No way around it.

IF I have the port forwarding correctly, could this cp be used.
No.

Jeff

[nobaloney]

Originally posted by Hooper
I have a "Promise" card for them, as for doing "raid" I am still... dont laugh, reading my linux books on how to set it up.
With eight drives, you'd be better off with RAID 5.

My biggest thing is I have the money to burn, I have the equipment, show me how to do it :)

1) use some of that money to get routable IP#s to your servers; at least the one running DA

2) Before you decide you can use Promis with linux, make sure you can get source code for the RAID drives.

Make sure that when kernel upgrades are announced you'll be able to install them on your RAID system. We prefer linux software RAID because with most hardware RAID systems you can't upgrade your kernel until the RAID supplier suports that kernel.

Jeff