A modern alternative to OpenStack for everyone who sells cloud — from a regional hoster with forty nodes to a national operator with several data centres. Turnkey cloud-in-a-box: hosting panel, billing, customer portal, payments, support. Install, plug in users, start operating.
The live demo is the actual customer frontend — Cozystack Dashboard, running in your browser on demo data. No signup, no cluster.
One platform, two ends of the same scale
A regional hoster with forty nodes and a national operator with several data centres are in the same business: you sell capacity to someone who is not you, so you need billing, a customer-facing portal, tenant isolation you can defend under audit, and payments that reconcile. That is one product, not two. The difference is how much of it is switched on.
| Provider scale | National / operator scale | |
|---|---|---|
| Who | Hosting providers, MSPs, regional clouds, data centres | Telcos, national operators, banks running a commercial cloud, large public clouds |
| Regions | One or a few sites | Multi-region control plane; workload placement and policy across regions |
| Billing | WHMCS-integrated, Stripe and regional processors | Full billing back-end plus your own front-end, custom payment integrations |
| Existing estate | Migrate off it | Federate with it — one control plane over VMware, OpenNebula and OpenShift while you migrate |
| Onboarding | Productized installer, weeks to live | 3-6 month pilot, then 9-18 months to full multi-region |
| Bought as | Published price list, from $1,250 / month per 10 nodes | Multi-year programme, quoted per RFP |
The technology underneath is identical, which is the point: a provider that grows into the right-hand column does not replatform. It turns on multi-region and keeps its portal, its billing and its tenants.
What’s included
Full billing — back-end and front-end
Usage metering, invoicing, payment processing. Stripe, regional payment providers and B2B invoicing. Not API hooks you finish yourself — an actual production billing surface, with multi-currency and multi-jurisdiction support at operator scale, and pre-paid balance, post-paid invoicing, channel-partner billing and reseller margin handling.
WHMCS integration
A production-ready module with billing templates for the panel you already run. Two integration modes: WHMCS as the customer-facing front, or Cozystack Dashboard as the front with WHMCS as the billing back-end. Full usage data tracked and stored behind a documented API. More on the WHMCS integration →
Hosting panel and customer portal
A branded admin dashboard for the operator, plus a customer-facing console (Cozystack Dashboard, customized to your brand) with self-service registration, profiles, team management and support ticketing.
Service-creation wizards
Guided flows for VMs, Kubernetes clusters, managed databases (PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Valkey, Kafka, ClickHouse, RabbitMQ, NATS), S3-compatible object storage and GPU workloads. No YAML required from end customers.
Tenant lock and suspension
Tenant lifecycle controls built in — automatic suspension of overdue accounts, resource blocking, lock for security review. No engineering ticket to suspend a non-paying tenant.
Multi-hypervisor control plane
One control plane that orchestrates native KubeVirt VMs and integrates with existing VMware, OpenStack, OpenNebula and OpenShift infrastructure. Storage-class compatibility with shared SAN, S3-compatible and on-premise block storage; network integration with existing fabrics over BGP, OVN and Cilium.
Multi-region
Native multi-region orchestration: workload placement, identity, network and storage policy enforced across regions. The Tenant CRD scopes naturally to a region or across several.
Service catalogue beyond VMs
Managed PostgreSQL (CloudNativePG), MariaDB, Valkey, Kafka, ClickHouse, RabbitMQ, NATS, MongoDB, OpenSearch and Qdrant; S3 storage (SeaweedFS); HTTP cache; VPN service; GPU workloads.
Migration tooling and expertise
Modules and runbooks for migration from VMware, OpenStack, Virtuozzo and OpenNebula, including Forklift-based VM migration, which ships in the Ænix platform (upstream Cozystack self-service import is still in review, so a self-run Cozystack cluster deploys Forklift alongside it). Ænix delivers migration with experience from production engagements. Migration guides →
Enterprise support
24/7 support with a named technical account manager on higher tiers. Entry tier from $1,250/month.
Why providers choose this over OpenStack
| Dimension | OpenStack | Ænix Public Cloud Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Time to production | 6+ months typical | Weeks |
| Operations team size | 8-15+ engineers | 3-7 engineers |
| Service catalogue | DIY beyond core compute / storage / network | Built-in: Kubernetes, databases, S3, GPU, cache, VPN |
| Customer-facing portal | DIY | Cozystack Dashboard, branded, included |
| Billing | DIY integration | WHMCS-native, Stripe and regional providers |
| Multi-tenancy | Project model — limited | Tenant CRD with quotas, RBAC and observability per tenant |
| Migration from VMware | Heavy lift | Forklift-based tooling plus Ænix delivery |
| Vendor support | Community plus add-ons | Ænix enterprise support from $1,250/month |
| Upgrade cadence | Manual, risky | GitOps-managed, low-risk |
And versus the VPS control panels
Most small and mid-size providers are not running OpenStack at all. They run Virtualizor, SolusVM, Proxmox with a billing bolt-on, or a panel written in-house. Those tools do one job well: sell and provision VPS.
| Dimension | Virtualizor / SolusVM class | Ænix Public Cloud Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Product catalogue | VPS, and variations on VPS | VMs plus managed Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, ClickHouse, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Valkey, S3, GPU |
| Where the margin is | Reselling capacity, competing on price per vCPU | Managed services on the same hardware, priced per service |
| Tenancy model | An account owning VMs | Tenant CRD — quotas, RBAC, network isolation, per-tenant observability and billing |
| Kubernetes for customers | Not offered, or a separate product to operate | Native, with a managed control plane per tenant |
| Upgrades | Panel upgrade and hypervisor upgrade, both manual | One GitOps-managed platform version |
| Lock-in | Proprietary panel, per-VM licence | Apache 2.0 core; you can drop the commercial layer and stay on plain Cozystack |
The honest read: if VPS resale is your whole business and the margin satisfies you, a panel is cheaper and simpler — keep it. This platform pays for itself when you want to sell managed services, databases, Kubernetes and GPU without building each one yourself.
Combine it with the other platforms
The three Ænix platforms are the same engine with different surfaces switched on, so they compose rather than compete. Nothing here is a separate installation.
- AI Platform — multi-tenant GPU scheduling, fractional GPU sharing, model serving, vector databases. Providers sell this as GPU-as-a-Service on the hardware they already have.
- Private Cloud Platform — DORA / NIS2 architecture, customer-controlled keys, audit-ready logging. Relevant when you are a regulated entity yourself, or when you run internal workloads next to the ones you sell.
A telco selling a sovereign cloud product while running its own regulated internal estate takes both, on one platform, under one operations team.
Who buys it
| Buyer | Typical engagement |
|---|---|
| Hosting provider, MSP, regional cloud | Productized installer, live in weeks, from the price list |
| Data centre adding cloud services | Migration from VMware or Virtuozzo, then service catalogue expansion |
| Large public-cloud operator | New cloud product launch or multi-region scale-up |
| Tier-1 bank operating a commercial cloud | DORA-aligned, sovereign, multi-region |
| Large telco or national operator | Customer-facing sovereign cloud product, often regional plus edge |
Production customers
Regional hosting providers running Ænix Platform include GoHost.kz, HDReady, Beby Cloud, HiKube, UseTech, Cloupard, Cloudsy, delivering multi-tenant cloud products across the EU, DACH, Central Asia and other regions.
Bank and telco deployments are NDA-protected until mid-2027. One commercial public cloud built on this platform is written up in detail: a Swiss provider running three data centres with synchronous cross-DC replication and GPU in production.
Engagement structure
- Discovery call (30 minutes, free) — confirm fit
- Platform Readiness Assessment (5-10 days, fixed price) — current-state and target architecture, migration roadmap, risk register
- Pilot (3-6 months, operator scale) — one region, one tenant cohort, one product line
- Full build — weeks at provider scale via the productized installer; 9-18 months for multi-region production with customer onboarding workflows and operations training
- Managed operations (optional) — Ænix runs the control plane under SLA
Platform Readiness Assessment →
How to start
Tell us your scale, your current stack and what you sell today, and we will set up a focused call with an Ænix engineer to confirm fit.
Prefer a shorter first step? Book a discovery call instead.