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 1 | # cloudtools
 2 | Tools for VPS and cloud providers
 3 | 
 4 | ## Billing systems
 5 | * WHMCS: http://www.whmcs.com/
 6 | * Blesta: http://www.blesta.com/
 7 | * ShineISP: https://github.com/shinesoftware/shineisp2/wiki (OS)
 8 | * Virtkick: https://www.virtkick.com/
 9 | * ClientExec: https://www.clientexec.com/
10 | * HostBill: https://hostbillapp.com/
11 | 
12 | ## Shared Hosting Panels / Server Management Panels
13 | * Froxlor: http://froxlor.org/ (OS) - Shared Hosting
14 | * Vesta: https://vestacp.com/ (OS) - Shared Hosting
15 | * ISPConfig3: http://www.ispconfig.org/ - Shared Hosting
16 | * Ajenti: http://ajenti.org/ - Shared Hosting
17 | * cPanel + WHM: https://store.cpanel.net/ - Shared Hosting
18 | * Plesk: http://plesk.com
19 | 
20 | ## VPS Panels (NO HA/Hourly Billing)
21 | * Virtualizor: http://www.virtualizor.com/
22 | * VirtPanel (Halted Development): https://site.virtpanel.com/
23 | * SolusVM (OnApp, Halted Feature Updates): http://solusvm.com/ 
24 | * Virtkick (OnApp, Halted Development): https://www.virtkick.com/ 
25 | 
26 | ## Commercial Cloud Platforms (Hourly Billing/Monthly,etc.)
27 | * OnApp: http://onapp.com/ (HA, CDN, Apps, VMs) 
28 | * VirtEngine: http://virtengine.com (HA, Storage, Docker, Apps, VMs/Containers)
29 | * Virtuozzo: http://www.odin.com/products/virtuozzo/  (HA, Storage, Docker, VMs/Containers)
30 | * Jelastic: https://jelastic.com/ (Apps, Containers)
31 | 
32 | ## Virtualization
33 | * KVM: http://www.linux-kvm.org/ (OS, VMs)
34 | * OpenVZ: https://openvz.org (OS, Containers)
35 | * Xen: http://www.xenproject.org/ (OS, VMs/Containers)
36 | * Docker: https://www.docker.com/ (OS, Apps Based Containers)
37 | * LXC: https://linuxcontainers.org/ (OS, Containers)
38 | 
39 | ## Private Cloud Platforms (Open Source)
40 | * OpenNebula: http://opennebula.org
41 | * OpenStack: https://www.openstack.org/
42 | * CloudStack https://cloudstack.apache.org/
43 | * VirtEngine: https://virtengine.com/products/opensource.html
44 | 
45 | ## Networking
46 | * Open vSwitch: http://openvswitch.org/
47 | * VLAN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_LAN, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/vlan
48 | 
49 | ## Minimal solution
50 | Using WHMCS hooks to auomate vagrant setup and provisioning (with Puppet)
51 | 
52 | ## Recommended Platforms:
53 | Billing Platform:
54 | * WHMCS (Most Popular) or Blesta
55 | 
56 | Shared Hosting:
57 | * cPanel (Most Popular) or Plesk
58 | 
59 | VPS Hosting:
60 | * Virtualizor (More Updates) or SolusVM (More Stable & Popular)
61 | 
62 | Cloud VM Hosting:
63 | * OnApp (Expensive) or VirtEngine (New)
64 | 


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