Hello to all, i m thinking in leave my current host company because i have a problem with a joomla site, so i found so good information about the services that The Planet offer to their clients. Now i have a VPS account and i was talking with a sales representative to your company and there i found a deal by $69/m but the problem is that dont come with Cpanel, so i would know if some member could help me with 2 things before to take the decision to chenge.
1. could i contact any member for that he could use a subdomain and install a joomla site for me, so if this works i could not doubt in choose The Planet
2.-They told me about that Cpanel is not included and that have 25 fee monthly (too much for me) so is there a way that i could install it on my way?
Hope that i can answer those questions
Regards
Bruce Valle
Webs Solutions, Inc

What is your current problem with your joomla site and what resources does your current vps have (cpu, ram, disk space if that's a concern, etc.)

#1 I don't understand how the subdomain relates to joomla -- if there is just one site on the server you could install joomla yourself as well as apache, php, etc. from the command line, but it will take you a few hours if you're not familiar with such tasks. You'll also have to harden the server, remove unneeded services, install a firewall, install your server software, implement a backup plan, etc.

#2 You can buy an external license for cpanel and install it yourself, but I don't think you'll find it for less than $25 a month unless you are willing to pay a very large upfront fee (hundreds of dollars)

Are you sure you want to move from a VPS? I like dedicated servers because the resources aren't shared with other vps nodes making things a bit quicker in my experience, but at the same time with a VPS you get a cheaper cpanel license (or your vps host does who can then pass that on to you)...

Instead of cpanel you could try Webadmin