You may have heard, the future of our provider of our virtualization management software, LXLabs, is in serious doubt at this point. The founder and developer has taken his own life, and there are several known vulernabilities in the software that have been made public recently. Some were fixed others remain in question. In response, we are have taken down the HyperVM service as well as LXAdmin/Kloxo on all our company vps’es. For customers running LXAdmin we strongly suggest doing the same.
 
Here’s how:
(log in with ssh as root to your vps)
service lxadmin stop   (stops the panel from working temporarily)
chkconfig –level 2 lxadmin off 
chkconfig –level 3 lxadmin off 
chkconfig –level 4 lxadmin off  
chkconfig –level 5 lxadmin off   (these turn off the service for those runlevels)
chkconfig –list lxadmin  (shows which level are ‘on’ … should all be off now)
(log out)
 
If there is something you need the panel for, we strongly recommend not leaving it running. Turn it on (service lxadmin start), do what you need, and then turn it back off (service lxadmin stop).
 
However this is not a long term solution. We are looking at the available virtualization solutions, and trying to work in which would provide a stable environment (something LXLabs’ needed improving on anyway), painless migration (as much as possible), and growth potential. We are heavily leaning to one of the more mature open source products. As this potentially gives us peer review of code asn actual access to the code itself. I am personally a 25 year veteran of software development, so I just feel better when I can get my hands on the code. Of course, we’ll do everything possible to ease migration pains when the time comes. But as we’re all about open communications with customers, we wanted to let everyone know the direction we’re heading and get your input if you have experience good or bad with a virtualization management platform. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the matter.
 
Customers wanting to come off the LXAdmin control panel to something else, please contact us. We can offer several alternatives – cp/whm, directadmin, dtc, ispconfig, etc. The only one we will charge for is cp/whm … namely because we can’t buy that product only lease it at $15/mo.  We will provide a cp/whm license to you at our cost if that’s the panel you desire. For DirectAdmin we will buy an internal license (ie stays with us if you leave) for your use for free as long as you’re with us. Some panels do not like being placed on an existing configured server. For those installs we’ll be happy to provide a second vps configured with the new panel free for a month in order to move accounts over to the new environment. Please feel free contact us to discuss your situation and how we can help.
 
Robert
Lagniappe Internet LLC

Robert

Robert Porter is the founder and managing member of Lagniappe Internet LLC. Robert holds multiple certifications incluging Oracle Certified Professional-Java 6 SE (OCP-J6), MCSE, A+, Net+, Project+, Security+, and multiple CIW certifications. He has been in the hosting industry for more than a decade and is founded Lagniappe Internet L.L.C. as a privately owned, completely debt free, hosting company based out of New Orleans. Robert's background includes 25+ years in programming, databases, networking and systems administration.