Comments on: LxAdmin Host-InA-Box Review Part 1

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By: Southerns

Southerns — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:14:48 +0000

Any more news on this, I have had a brief look into it but cant find anything/reviews from 2009 on it.

By: scotty

scotty — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:55:48 +0000

It's inside an OpenVZ VPS with /proc/meminfo virtualised, i.e. it does not give you any meaningful value.

It is actually GOOD to see buffers and caches using up memory, as they help improving OS performance.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:35:18 +0000

I know this article is over a year old, but I'm curious how you got your buffers and cached memory to 0 (visible in your 'top' output)?

Even with swappiness set to 100 on my server i see buffers and cache creep up to consume lots of memory.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:34:55 +0000

There is a demo of lxadmin here: http://www.vpslink.com/lxadmin-vps/

The software looks very impressive, I especially like the gui design it is very artistic.

But I found the actual functionality to be a bit opaque/unclear. And since it is a non-working demo, can’t play with it to see what all those buttons actually do.

I like the fact that it has separate logins for customers versus site owners versus server admin. But I noticed that the help docs — which are well written — are aimed at server admins and say things that you would not necessarily want your customers to read.

Anyway the initial impression is very good, I have not yet signed up for an account so don’t know how well it works for real.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:33:59 +0000

Who know some website that teach about lxadmin.

I never used it now it on my vps. ToT

By: scotty

scotty — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:28:59 +0000

I agree on the support on LxAdmin forums. I once found a bug and reported it on LxAdmin forum, and it was resolved with an update within 2 days. The development model, although proprietary, is very open to their users.

By: pj1s

pj1s — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:37:48 +0000

One opens the mouth for a positive comment and then BuyAVPS goes down the drain ;). Apparently AxisHost are taking over the mess. At least they are reputable.

On the lxadmin topic – I have to say I’m pretty impressed. Try hanging out on the lxlabs forum, perhaps even posting your own thread. You get better support than cheap server management firms. Well, more or less… Without being a paying costumer!

One of the really good features are the seamless transitions from lighty to apache, djbdns to bind aso… Features that are added all the time, of course adding to learning curve, but also pretty damn amazing; Try following this thread. I know it isn’t that hard to implement … but they just add software, apps and GUI add-ons if you ask. http://forum.lxlabs.com/index.php?t=msg&th=2221&start=0& – it started on the 9th – and I’m betting we will be seeing results in one of the next (daily!?) updates.

By: scotty

scotty — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:20:46 +0000

Sorry I guess I have to take my comments on BuyAVPS back. Their entire netblock is down, and there are multiple threads on WHT talking about it. No good.

By: ztnews

ztnews — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:38:49 +0000

Scotty,

Thanks for the comments. I've done a little more due diligence on buyavps.com as well, and seen some of those bad reviews. The people from buyavps.com openly acknowledge, and apologize, for their service problems. And somewhere I saw they were looking for a 'partner' to buy up to 1/3 the company. So they may be cash-strapped. So mixed is the word.

Right now I'm leaning strongly toward giving LXadmin a shot. Possibly through vpslink.com.

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