We just installed a new server in-house running CentOS and Parallels Plesk Panel 9.2.1

We are trying to host our own Magento site, but everything about it is painfully slow. Does anyone have any suggestions for a cpanel to work with because people are telling us that Plesk sucks too much of the server's resources.

There is no way this will work now in production mode.

1) I have heard the same thing about Plesk. Supposedly, the way it is configured, there is a trade-off between space and speed. The more space you use, the slower the system : the less stored space, the faster the system. While this trade-off seems obvious to most, I have seen/heard nothing but negatve connotations for this occurrence on web-forums all over.

Just let me say that I do not have direct experience with Plesk, and this is a general consensus regarding things I have ever read about them by other sys. administrators.

2) http://www.cpanel.net/2009/06/centos...ence-2009.html

so try: www.cpanel.net ?

Not sure cPanel is available for in house use.

You might try lxAdmin (kloxo now). If you use Apache instead of the lighter server it is almost like cPanel. Best part it is free.

Plesk, cPanel, Direct Admin is 1 per month face powerful, individual self is my cPanel I rate higher.
In cPanel setup multiple security modes can say is more powerful

i am not sure cPanel is available for in house use,you should try some technological programme

Originally Posted by grass321

i am not sure cPanel is available for in house use,you should try some technological programme

Amazingly funny ironies aside, it seems that grass321 is not really familiar with enough english idioms to not get caught out.

They weren't going to use it to tidy the bedroom you know grassy lisa. Please note that individuals like yourself have had their entire countries banned from my servers. You do your identity great injustice with spam.

If you're just running one website, why do you need a control panel at all?

This is nothing to do with the control panel software you're running! (FWIW Plesk uses a different server for its internal use in Plesk 9, so is actually more efficient anyway than in the past).

Magento is well known for its poor performance without appropriate tweaking. I'd recommend taking a look at the various tweaks discussed on Magento's website as a starting point, and also definitely consider memcached for it: makes a huge difference.

If you still have trouble with it after that then invest in some decent hardware. Again, I repeat this is nothing to do with Plesk... we have plenty of customers using Plesk with Magento on a VPS who are more than happy with their performance after we point them to the appropriate tweaks with Magento itself + memcached etc.

Originally Posted by colbyt

You might try lxAdmin (kloxo now).

Right... so this would be the panel with the known unpatched security vulnerabilities which were widely discussed after the hypervm issues (by the same company) which apparently did very serious damage to a well known budget vps provider in US/UK?

My advice would be to steer clear of that!

Right... so this would be the panel with the known unpatched security vulnerabilities which were widely discussed after the hypervm issues (by the same company) which apparently did very serious damage to a well known budget vps provider in US/UK?

Unless they piss off the coffee boy I imagine it will be safe enough for in house use.

BTW, I think the hyperVM part was patched before the guy checked out.

It depends exactly what they have in mind for "in-house" use. I took that to mean an Internet facing server where the control panel will only be used by the company itself (i.e. not customers) - seems unlikely to use Magento for an intranet system?

Recommending people to use something with known security vulnerabilities doesn't seem like a good plan - especially without detailing the caveats such as no maintainer/direction and still at least question marks over if all (known) vulnerabilities are patched. The same still stands for HyperVM and there are many hosts actively (and desperately) seeking to replace it for the same reasons. (I should add, for anyone curious, that we don't use either panel).

Besides that, the main point I was making by posting in this thread is that the CP used is irrelevant to Magento performance (especially if it's not in active use: sitting there idling shouldn't cause much resource use whichever panel you have installed!). Magento is a good system, but requires some TLC to have it perform well.

Assuming that the OP is running it on a relatively new dedicated server, there is no way it should be fundamentally underpowered. As I said, we have many happy customers running Magento with Plesk on mid-spec VPS's...