OpenStack is a big setup and it's complex, but worth the setup and effort.

Have you thought about using Proxmox or oVirt instead. Proxmox and CEPH works like charm and is easy to setup. Also, there is a WHMCS module for Proxmox integration.

OpenStack is fine, but needlessly complex.

CEPH is pretty bad for anything other than very large archive space. You won't ever get the performance you should out of it. It works ok but any high i/o workload will make it cry and you'll continually experience lots of random issues with it. Go for a paid provider on your storage architecture and you'll be much better off.

Quoted from Guest on Thursday, 02 October 2025

OpenStack is a big setup and it's complex, but worth the setup and effort.

Have you thought about using Proxmox or oVirt instead. Proxmox and CEPH works like charm and is easy to setup. Also, there is a WHMCS module for Proxmox integration.

Yes, we noticed the Proxmox/CEPH + WHMCS combo, and it is indeed an integrated solution to get started easily

We are aiming to develop extended cloud solutions (beyond VM), targetting Cloud Phone, VM, Secure Container, DBaaS etc. Hence the desire to work with the big/complex frameworks like OpenStack

For storage, this one is supposed to be fast https://storpool.com/
@Mike - MDDHosting used it.

CEPH is indeed one of the most challenging technical challenges for our Cloud solution development efforts. We have made some key breakthroughs, especially on the iops performance, except for small packet read (4K packet size).

We have been exploring storage solution providers (e.g., https://www.45drives.com) but they are most interested in selling integrated storage solutions than consulting services to help optimize our CEPH performance.
@HostXNow, thanks for your storpool referral.. We will check it out

Openstack is the best open source framework for us to develop and evolve our full stack IaaS, PaaS solutioins for SME customers

Quoted from Guest on Thursday, 02 October 2025

OpenStack is fine, but needlessly complex.

Agree here and troubleshooting issues that pops up with Openstack would be a pain and may not be worth the efforts.

Quoted from Guest on Monday, 06 October 2025

Agree here and troubleshooting issues that pops up with Openstack would be a pain and may not be worth the efforts.

Very valid points. Not worthy the trouble, unless you really want to develop a full stack IaaS / PaaS platform with room to expand into a full-blown public cloud provider.

The use cases for openstack vs the use cases in hosting are completely different. If for hosting you just need to deploy VPS, then proxmox is way easier.

OpenStack/CEPH comes into play when you need a full blown cloud solution.

Quoted from Guest on Monday, 06 October 2025

The use cases for openstack vs the use cases in hosting are completely different. If for hosting you just need to deploy VPS, then proxmox is way easier.

OpenStack/CEPH comes into play when you need a full blown cloud solution.

I could not agree more. Well said