vesta control panel It is an excellent panel to manage your VPS, which can even be considered as an alternative to Cpanel that most servers use. Personally I have used both, but if this first one caught my attention because of all the configurations that can be made even in a 5 USD VPS It can handle a heavy traffic spike without the need to switch to a dedicated one.
What you need to know before installing Vesta Control Panel
It needs to be a clean installation, that is, it does not have apache, php previously installed, if these components already exist, it will not work. Suppose they already came in the VPS, what you have to do is remove them.
This admin panel is compatible with the following Linux-based systems: RHEL / CentOS 5,6,7 / Debian 6,7,8 / Ubuntu 12.04-16.10
Installing Vesta Control Panel
The installation process is super easy, we just have to go to this link and after that we must select the components that we want it to include, for example nginx together apache (for me the most recommended), in this case nginx will be in charge of serving all static content, such as images and css.
It is also possible to use nginx, but you may have some problems with friendly urls if you are not an advanced user, you can select the first one.
En DNS You can leave by default the one which is named, it is very easy to configure it later. Likewise you can leave FTP by default, in firewall you can select only Iptables, if you choose that Iptables plus fail2ban will give you more security, but this configuration will consume a lot of ram memory, in fact I could see more than 500 MB.
As for the File System Quota it is left by default NO, in MAIL you can leave exit plus dovecot, in database logically it should be left MYSQL, in Additional Repository you can leave REMI (default option). To finish, in Hostname I will write the url of your domain, and email and a password (these will be to access the panel once it is installed). Click on generate install command.
By doing this, it will generate a command line, which will help us to install our vesta panel almost automatically on the VPS server or dedicated server.
Installing Vesta Control Panel via SSH
After the above we must contact us via ssh, login as root, and paste the generated command line.
But before that it is necessary to be able to download the script, for this we must write in the console:
curl -O http://vestacp.com/pub/vst-install.sh
Or the command to install packages according to your Linux distribution, now we will be ready to paste the lines of code generated in the previous part.
If it gives us an error, at the beginning of the installation, we can solve it in a very simple way, before pasting the commands you must write the following –Force you will be able to see that the installation process starts without any problem.
This process normally takes between 10 and 15 minutes, everything will depend on how many components we have selected, out of curiosity I practically did all the combinations of components (I had planned to move my blog to the VPS) in order to see which was the one that gave me the best results, I could see that when we chose exim + dovecot + spamassassin + clamav if it usually takes a long time.
When you have finished all this process, it will tell us that everything is correct and we will be able to enter from our ip address: 8083. The access data is what we put when selecting the components.
And so that it does not become so long, in another post you can publish how to configure DNS, how to install wordpress. You may feel that it is complicated, but it is not, then you get used to it and realize that it is as easy as checking your twitter.
Hello I have 2 dedicated servers with vesta, more or less with 70 webs between the 2, I handle everything with vesta. I have used cpanel, I like both, but in summary I have had a very good experience with vesta. Cheers
Hello, this panel is very good in terms of performance, plus it is free, you just have to be careful with backup copies, preferably they should be remote.