Proxmox VPS hosting: how to host and sell VPS on Proxmox VE
Proxmox VE already runs the VMs and containers a VPS is made of. To turn it into a VPS hosting business you need a layer on top: plans, IP management, customer isolation, a self-service portal and billing. Here is how that works, and how to run it without building your own tooling.
Why host VPS on Proxmox VE?
A VPS is a virtual machine (or container) with its own resources, IP and root access. Proxmox VE gives you exactly that on open-source, enterprise-grade virtualization: KVM/QEMU virtual machines for full isolation and any OS, and LXC containers for lightweight, dense Linux workloads. It is free, it runs the same technology the big clouds use, and it has no per-VM licensing. See LXC vs QEMU on Proxmox for which guest type fits which customer.
What Proxmox does not ship is the hosting layer: turning nodes into a product you can sell, meter and hand to customers. That is the gap NexoVirt fills.
What it takes to run Proxmox VPS hosting
Five pieces sit between a bare Proxmox node and a VPS a customer can buy and manage.
Proxmox nodes and networking
One or more Proxmox VE nodes and a block of IPv4/IPv6 addresses to hand out. NexoVirt adopts fresh or already-running nodes with a discovery agent and imports your existing VMs, containers, storage and networks, no reinstall. See managing multiple Proxmox hosts.
Resource plans
Define what a VPS is: cores, RAM, disk, a monthly traffic limit, a runtime and a grace period. Customers are provisioned from a plan, and NexoVirt enforces it, suspending on expiry or over-traffic and auto-deleting after grace. See traffic limits and auto-suspend.
IP address management
Built-in IPAM: define IP zones, and NexoVirt allocates the next free address and injects a static IP at create time, so every VPS boots with the right networking and you never track a spreadsheet.
Customer isolation and a portal
Each customer must see only their own VPS, never the raw Proxmox UI or other tenants. NexoVirt gives every customer a self-service portal with an in-browser console, power controls, SSH keys and 2FA, scoped server-side to what they own.
Billing and automation
A clean REST API drives the whole guest lifecycle, create from a plan, assign an owner, set the IP, power, reinstall, delete, so you can wire up WHMCS, Blesta, FossBilling or your own scripts. See automating Proxmox with the REST API.
Or run all five at once
NexoVirt is the panel that ties Steps 1–5 together on Proxmox VE, self-hosted, no per-VM fees.
See the Proxmox VPS hosting panelWhat Proxmox VPS hosting costs to run
Proxmox VE is free and open source, and NexoVirt is self-hosted with no per-VM licensing, so your control-plane cost does not grow with every VPS you sell. Community Edition is free up to two Proxmox nodes with unlimited VMs; Enterprise lifts the node cap and adds white-label branding. Compared with per-VM panels, see the SolusVM alternative and Virtualizor alternative pages for a feature-by-feature breakdown.
If you are building a product to resell, the build-your-own-VPS-hosting guide and turn Proxmox into a hosting platform walk through it end to end.
Built on top of Proxmox VE, not instead of it
NexoVirt does not replace or fork Proxmox. It talks to the Proxmox API and adds the hosting layer around it, so your nodes stay standard Proxmox and you keep everything Proxmox already does well. You are adding a product layer, not swapping your virtualization stack.
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