H-Sphere Hosting Control Panel – Scalable Multi-Server Web Hosting Solution

H-Sphere is a powerful, scalable multi-server web hosting control panel engineered to streamline hosting operations across Linux, BSD, and Windows platforms. It features an advanced billing system, intuitive user interface, and seamless server management—all built to automate and simplify hosting tasks for providers of any size.
H-Sphere is designed for effortless horizontal scaling: you can add web, mail, database, and DNS servers anytime without downtime. Written in Java and compatible with any SQL-compliant database, it leverages industry-standard software for optimal reliability and performance.

H-Sphere Control Panel Overview

H-Sphere offers the highest level of web-hosting operations by providing:

• Flexibility at all levels
• Multilingual support
• Virtual Private Servers

Built on a true centralized management model, H-Sphere stores all configuration data in a centralized SQL database. The control panel server dispatches commands via SSH or HTTP to remote servers, enabling real-time management. New servers can be seamlessly added without interruption.

H-Sphere Supported Operating Systems

We support the following *nix versions:

If your distribution is not listed, we don't support it. We don't support beta, testing, or unstable versions of any distribution.
For example, Red Hat 8 and 9, Fedora, Debian, and Mandrake aren't supported.

Hosting Control Panel Servers

The heart of H-Sphere is the Control Panel Server. It knows about every other server in the configuration. The Control Panel server manages all new machines, users, domains, and events behind the scene. When a user enters the system and creates a new account, the control panel server dispatches commands to DNS, Mail, and Web servers to configure themselves. It also writes all the information about user into its database. From this moment on, H-Sphere knows which computers the account resides on, the properties of the account, how it is billed and any other information it might need to know. All settings are configured in real time.

An H-Sphere configuration includes the following servers:

You can put servers 1 through 5 to one or more boxes combining them any way you want.
The Control Panel server is required; other servers can be installed later.

You need more than one box if you are going to offer one of the following:
1) Windows hosting: Windows Web, MS SQL, and Windows RealMedia servers are set up separately on Windows platform and can also be combined in any possible way.
2) PgSQL database hosting: PgSQL server for user database hosting can't share the box with the control panel server, because the latter runs with system PgSQL database.
3) VPS hosting: Virtual Private Servers require special software that is installed on a separate RedHat Linux box.

H-Sphere Hardware and Installation Requirements

H-Sphere can be installed on any number of computers. A minimum configuration can be installed on one box, but more is recommended.

Hardware Requirements

• Pentium III 500MHz CPU (minimum)
• 512MB RAM (1GB RAM recommended for SiteStudio integration)

Installation Notes:

• Full administrative control over DNS, mail, and web servers is mandatory.
• Only public IP addresses are supported.
• OpenSRS domain registration integration requires a Full Access OpenSRS account.

H-Sphere Security Features

H-Sphere ensures robust transaction and data security, including:

• SSL and shared SSL certificates for hosted domains
• Full SSL encryption for the control panel interface
• Secure server-side encryption for sensitive data like credit card numbers

H-Sphere Pricing

H-Sphere licensed is at $4.50 per account one time fee.
There is additional nonrefundable $95 setup fee.

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