cPanel for VPS
cPanel VPS Hosting
cPanel has released a new version of its control panel product for use specifically on VPS servers, since it has been specially optimized to use a lower amount of memory when it is idle and not being used. cPanel for VPS contains the same features as the standard cPanel, but has certain parts of it tweaked to ensure that the amount of memory that it uses at idle time is reduced by up to 60% in some situations. For web masters and web hosts who are hosting their clients on cPanel based VPS, this will allow them to host more domains per VPS since there will be more memory that will be available for websites which are hosted on VPS, which means that web hosts can cash in on this extra memory so that they can host more customers per VPS. For example, testing with a VPS that has 500MB RAM has shown that with the standard installation of cPanel, the server only has 248MB RAM free at any given time, even when its idle, which means that cPanel is using up 252MB of RAM when it isn’t even being used by anyone; cPanel for VPS was then installed on this VPS to see what the change would be, and it was found that when idle, cPanel for VPS using up a maximum of 90MB RAM leaving at least 495MB of RAM free for use by other programs.
cPanel has managed to optimize its control panel to ensure lower memory usage by tweaking the Apache instance that is installed along with it, which is what serves the websites that are hosted on the VPS to the people who are viewing them; Apache is known to be a bit of a memory hogger on Linux machines, which means that with some tweaking it is able to run at the same speed, but without using so many resources – other programs that are installed alongside the cPanel control panel have also been optimized to reduce the amount of memory which they use. Since the amount of memory used has been reduced, it enables web hosts to provide clients with a more economic hosting solution, since they don’t have to have as many physical machines since they can use VPS which means that they only need to have one physical machine for a certain amount of VPS. cPanel for VPS is still in its EDGE build, which means that there isn’t a stable release of it available for wide use at this moment in time; for now, you should only test cPanel for VPS and should stick with a regular cPanel install in a live environment since the fact that it isn’t stable yet could mean that it would affect the performance of your VPS.
