Reseller part of Plesk 11 thoughts

[LinqLOL]

Hi,

We are working quiet a lot with resellers and we seeing some problems with the reseller part of Plesk.

No control over certain settings
We want to force some minimal reseller plan settings for packages/plans such as:
* Hosting Parameters (such as "Run PHP as", cgi-support, perl-support)
* php settings (so we can be sure customers are using secure php settings and not exceeding the memory limits)

Right now this can't be done as it seems?

Missing addon plans
Why can we make addons for normal hosting plans but not for reseller plans? This is a big miss for us.


Greetz

 

[Sergey L]

Are you looking to restrict Reseller from unsafe PHP settings?
Reseller can tune PHP settings for their customer in Service Plans

 

[LinqLOL]

Yes thats my point. They can overwrite our policy for their plans/website. Let's say I don't want to give reseller more then 64MB php memory_limit. Right now they can even give 256MB (or more) to their customers.

In my eyes reseller is something other then a administrator which can change everything.

 

[Sergey L]

I see your point. But specifically for memory_limit - your customers actually can take any amount of RAM in their scripts with simple ini_set() call included. PHP settings aren't real limits, they are rather settings.

For memory limits you probably should tune Apache settings.

 

[LinqLOL]

We patched our php installation for preventing that actually But beside of that we also want to force register_globals and session.save_path settings.

I can imagine that our requirements can be called niche. But how about my idea of the addons. We want to make addons for diskspace and such for Resellers too.

 

[Sergey L]

Thanks, I added a vote for Reseller Addon plans

 

[Amin Taheri]

Also using something like Suhosin would allow you to disable functions and memory limits that the reseller would not able to override.