Sabrienix is looking at acquiring a new server to perhaps begin offering self-managed/reseller hosting. Currently our goal has been on helping people get their site up by offering “managed” hosting – that is we take care of all the software and everything, and you concentrate on blogging, running your store, running your forum, or whatever it is you want to do.
The problem with this is it’s expensive, and we’re all going to have gray hair in no time if it’s all we offer. The Mumble hosting is going quite well, but we’re not going to get rich off it (nor did we ever plan to, really – a good portion of the proceeds go straight to the Mumble SF project).
Well, we’ve been secretly dabbling with cPanel and we’re starting to get the hang of it. Using cPanel isn’t really the problem – honestly any monkey can do it… the problem is I have a very specific way I like my servers laid out. It helps with security, it helps them run smoother, and it helps me keep an eye on things. cPanel disagrees, and has it’s own way it likes doing things.
So I’m finally coming to grips and finding some nice middle ground (because there’s a fair amount of configurability in Easy::Apache) and I think I can survive with it. We’re chewing up test licenses right now so we can practice breaking things and get all our ducks in a row before we stick paying customers on there.
Apparently everyone wants to host 40 blogs and all their friends because reseller hosting sells faster than Wilmington NC real estate. 