Hi Andy,

Youre probably right about your assessment of the hosting industry.

Most will either be on VPS or dedicated, its just a natural transgression (though I think its awhile off).

Though the concept of virtual servers isnt new. Server consolidation has been in a project in every major IT department for the last couple of years. The most popular software for consolidation has been VM Ware. You can literally run 1 8 way intel server with upto 24 virtual servers, all running different OS's (if you wanted). VM Ware also gives you the ability to reboot each virtual server, without disrupting the rest of the VPS's. Preety remarkable stuff, but very expensive.

Lower end VPS "tools" (as you pointed out), traditionally have stability problems. The only product that has really solved this, at least to a reasonable level, is Hsphere.

the current hsphere panel allows you to set up stable VPS's - so far our customers have been very impressed. There were some issues initially, but once we worked through those, its been smooth sailing.

However, I would be very interested in taking a look at what you guys have come up with. If youve improved on what hsphere has, I def wat to give it serious consideration...