Questions About Keyhelp Free Version and Server Compatibility

[noviro]

Hi,
I have a few questions regarding Keyhelp:

1. Does the free version have any limitations on the number of users or domains?
2. Besides Apache, is there support for other web servers? Or, is it possible to use Nginx as a reverse proxy in front of Apache?
3. Is there a feature to limit user resources, such as RAM or CPU usage?

Thank you for your help!

[Tobi]

1. NO
2. Not yet
3. YES

[noviro]

Thanks for confirming it’s possible to limit resources. Could you explain how to set CPU and RAM limits for users? Are these limits per user or per plan, and is it done through Keyhelp or server settings?

[technotravel]

In my understanding, there is no possibility to limit RAM or CPU usage per user, at least not from the UI. I also don't think this makes sense, KH is not a virtualisation program.

Here is a pic of the the configurable options per user (sorry, in German):

Why not just try KH for yourself on a small test server? Installation is easy and fast

There is an English interface ... farsi hanuz na-dare, bebakhshid

[Jolinar]

@noviro:
Go to the demo website and test everything out for yourself->
https://demo.keyhelp.eu/

[tab-kh]

Well, it depends ...

Each user has a separate Pool (PHP-FPM). And for each of these pools you can define, how many processes are available and you can also set PHP memory_limit, max_execution_time and other PHP settings. So, in a way, you have some control over the resources they can use. But that is just PHP, if you allow your users to run Executables or to use node.js or ..., Keyhelp does not deal with these in any way, so you have to restrict the resources used that way outside of Keyhelp.

There is no setting like "User A may use 2 vCores and 2GB of RAM, user B may use 4 vCores and 4 GB of RAM, ...".

[technotravel]

https://demo.keyhelp.eu/

Cool!

Didn't know about this demo - definitely worth a try ... and faster and cheaper than setting up a test server

[Jolinar]

Didn't know about this demo

I'm glad you were able to learn something new.

[noviro]

Thank you for your helpful answers. Could you please tell me if I install Nginx on the server, is it possible to configure it myself to work as a reverse proxy? Has anyone done this before? Any help would be appreciated.

[Jolinar]

Could you please tell me if I install Nginx on the server, is it possible to configure it myself to work as a reverse proxy?

Yes, of course.

Has anyone done this before?

Yes, I'm pretty sure.

Any help would be appreciated.

https://nginx.org/en/docs/

[24unix]

Thank you for your helpful answers. Could you please tell me if I install Nginx on the server, is it possible to configure it myself to work as a reverse proxy? Has anyone done this before? Any help would be appreciated.

Why would you want that?
Just because nginx has a weird config?

You could use Apache as a reverse proxy if you want to serve node or docker stuff.

[noviro]

Thank you for your helpful answers. Could you please tell me if I install Nginx on the server, is it possible to configure it myself to work as a reverse proxy? Has anyone done this before? Any help would be appreciated.

Why would you want that?
Just because nginx has a weird config?

You could use Apache as a reverse proxy if you want to serve node or docker stuff.

My website has high traffic and Nginx responds much faster. I would prefer to serve the static files through Nginx.

[24unix]

Thank you for your helpful answers. Could you please tell me if I install Nginx on the server, is it possible to configure it myself to work as a reverse proxy? Has anyone done this before? Any help would be appreciated.

Why would you want that?
Just because nginx has a weird config?

You could use Apache as a reverse proxy if you want to serve node or docker stuff.

My website has high traffic and Nginx responds much faster.

You didn't yet try KeyHelp with Apache, but know that Nginx is faster?

I would prefer to serve the static files through Nginx.

As only one daemon can serve 80/443 per IP, you might realize that this is not possible.

If you have the option to add a second IPv4 and IPv6, you could add Nginx to the setup, but that is beyond the scope of KeyHelp and requires a bit of Linux and DevOps knowledge.

[Fezzi]

My website has high traffic and Nginx responds much faster. I would prefer to serve the static files through Nginx.

Some of my clients have pretty prominent websites and hit a monthly traffic of over 1TB each .... Here a screenshot of the Apache over the last 24hrs from a server which hits on average 2TB traffic per month, generated by two super sites and a few small WP pages... I never hear any complaints of the clients regarding speed...

[noviro]

If the users of a website are mostly from European countries, then yeah, maybe the difference between web servers isn’t that noticeable. But here, based on our experience, Nginx usually handles more concurrent users because of its speed and performance.

By the way, I’ve got another question: in KeyHelp, does Apache use php-fpm or mod\_php for handling PHP?