cPanel VPS Question

[Rahxie]

If I pay for a full cPanel license will it still show the "VPS Optimized" logos? I have a server but split it up into some virtual machines, the VPS has 2GB RAM and I could increase it at any time.

I would like to remove the logos even if it means paying for the dedicated server version of cPanel. I don't mind the normal cPanel Accelerated logo. Changing the logos through the branding still shows VPS Optimized logos after an update and to all reseller customers.

[PlatinumServerM]

Since there's such a big price difference, I've never seen anyone use a full cpanel license on a vps. You may want to check with cpanel.net directly regarding this.

[dalem]

cpanel will automatically detect whether or not it is running on a vps
running a full dedicated license will make no difference

you can edit /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/themes/x/topframe.html

to point to the WHM accelerated image but it will get overwritten every time cpanel is updated

[Spiral]

Originally Posted by Rahxie

I would like to remove the logos even if it means paying for the dedicated server version of cPanel. I don't mind the normal cPanel Accelerated logo. Changing the logos through the branding still shows VPS Optimized logos after an update and to all reseller customers.

It doesn't matter what license you get or what patches you do to hide it,
the fact that you are running on a VPS is always going to be visible no
matter what you do and it's not exactly rocket science for any of your
users or resellers to see they are operating under a VPS account and
not the direct hardware server because there are some very substantial
differences between VPS accounts and physical hardware machines and
certain limitations and certain things VPS servers can't do that give away
in a heartbeat that an account is running under a VPS account no matter
how much resources you have allocated to it from the physical machine!

Even dalem's advice on temporarily modifying screens to try to hide things
won't hide the limitations of the file system running from a VPS or the
limitations to the attributes that can be applied to files or the simple
fact that the system clock is a read only software hook let alone that
the system devices are all virtualized resources.

Point in fact, if you are looking to hide that you are running from a VPS
then you are pretty much out of luck because there is no way to do that
convincingly enough to make people really believe they are not on a
VPS account unless you are just dealing with people who are just clueless.

All of the above said though, I got to ask "why" you even want to hide
that you are running your reseller accounts off of VPS sessions? If you
got access to the hardware machine and just isolated resellers into VPS
accounts to keep them separate or for security, I would go ahead and
market that as such and use it to your advantage since resellers
allocated to different VPS accounts on the same physical machine would
always be more secure than resellers on the same physical machine only
setup in a shared hosting environment.

Just my two cents on that subject ...

[Rahxie]

Thank you for your reply. I've actually been doing just that. Although at first they didn't like it, they see it as also being friendly to our planet.