Hi,
I'm looking for
web hosting and I have a few questions. Right now I'm looking to host a really low-volume static web site (probably only about 5 to 10 pages and no ecommerce). For this it is pretty clearthat your most basic cpanel package would be sufficient however the other thing I want to host is a two user
SugarCRM system so my questions really relate to that.
Firstly, is it possible to host
SugarCRM with a
Linux cPanel hosting account? I think it just needs PHP and MySQL and the data size will be tiny.
Next, I would want to be confident that my data is secure. I see that the cpanel hosting plans all have a tick against the "Shared SSL" feature. What does this mean? Does this mean that I get "out of the box" (if you see what I mean) ability to establish an https connection to a subdomain of my main domain? If not then what would I need to do to ensure that the traffic between my browser and my web site is encrypted for either cpanel or
vps hosting?
Next, how does the security (privacy) of the data on the hard drive compare between a
cpanel hosting plan and a
vps hosting plan? How can I be confident that other customers sharing my node won't accidentally get access to my data? For vps is each customer account running as a different Linux (or Windows) user on the node so that the security is handled by file permissions on the underlying shared Linux file system and each user only sees their portion of the tree? How does the Virtuozzo enforce seperation? Is there any practical difference? My suspicion is that effectively cpanel and vps are the same in that theoretically there is total data seperation between users but in the unlikely event that a pointer or mapping variable got corrupted somewhere in the OS or in the Virtuazzo virtualisation layer then if one was really unlucky then another user might end up getting access to your data. The really transition point comes in going to 100% dedicated server when the hard drives are physically separated.
Next, how are backups handled? Do both cpanel and vps have the ability for 100% automated regular backups without the user needing to remember to log on and explicitly execute a backup? If so then is it possible for the system to send an email to either actively confirm each (nightly?) backup and/or to inform about a failed backup?
Finally, is the up status of the
Apache server automatically monitored and the server restarted on failure when on a vps container or is it left entirely to the "owner" of the vps container to monitor and manage the health of all software running within their container?
Sorry for so many questions. I really like what I see of your company and having a forum shows a great confidence and good attitude to your customers so I'm hoping that I can do what I need to do because you look good so far.
- Julian