There has been some confusion about what sort of control panel is used to manage A2 Hosting’s VPS accounts. Unlike the shared hosting and reseller accounts that are managed with cPanel, the VPS hosting accounts are managed with LxAdmin. Take a second to check out an LxAdmin demo.

There are two different types of LxAdmin, but the VPS accounts are run using LxAdmin Host-in-a-box because it is the world’s lightest control panel, meaning it doesn’t take up much space at all. It uses just 9MB RSS and 15MB of memory usage on a bootup.

LxAdmin utilizes lighttpd and djbdns. Lighttpd is a web server designed to be fast, secure, flexible standards compliant and is optimized when an environment is speed critical. Djbdns is a security aware domain name system (DNS). DNS translates hostnames such as http://adventuresinhosting.com into IP addresses.