Hostirian Adds Blue Onyx Control Panel To Its Suite Of VPS Packages

Hostirian, L.L.C., a leading provider of business-class shared, VPS and dedicated servers, collocation and cloud-based blogging platforms, today added a Blue Onyx control panel option for its suite of VPS packages. There is no additional charge.

Hostirian, L.L.C., a leading provider of business-class shared, VPS and dedicated servers, collocation and cloud-based blogging platforms, has added a Blue Onyx control panel option for its suite of VPS packages. There is no additional charge for adding this option.

Blue Onyx is a web-based graphic user interface (GUI) which allows its users to manage most aspects of their VPS package through a browser-based interface. It is a Linux distribution (based on CentOS v5.6) and is open source software, released under a Sun modified BSD license.

BlueOnyx includes support for Java Servlet Pages, built-in web-based email and phpMyAdmin. It also includes brute force login detection and prevention mechanisms, subdomain management, a GUI to automatically create and remove MySQL users and databases, PHP security management, working vacation messages, built-in JSP support and YUM update support. BlueOnyx comes pre-installed with PHP5 and MySQL5. It also has a GUI to modify SSH settings (root access, port and protocols).

Citing a growing trend to control costs, Hostirian added the Blue Onyx control panel option for its VPS clients. "We recognized the need for a cost-effective solution to address our customers' growing requirement to manage their VPS servers," said Ken Cox, Vice President of Operations. "Blue Onyx offers them a feature-rich free control panel solution."