Re: web hosting best practices

Outback Dingo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.isp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
yes, ispCP being one that i mentioned and OpenPanel are honestly your best
bets, especially if using freeside for billing provisioning

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Charles Sprickman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Outback Dingo wrote:
>
>  actually, dont use Cpanel, you can from ports install SysCP  or DTC from
>> ports/sysutils, or a semi-automated install of ispCP which is quite nice,
>> all open source also. which give you mail/dns/web/ftp management.
>>
>
> Yeah, I've recently been looking at the options in that space.  My concern
> with CPs is that:
>
> -they do break sometimes, and if you're not up to speed on the whole AMP
> stack and the CP, you're done
> -regardless of what CP we go with, we will always have a set of customers
> that are here because we'll do one-offs for them, and a CP is too
> restrictive for that
>
> That said, the guy that wrote Freeside, which we now use for billing, noted
> that these open source CPs all look "interesting":
>
> GNUPanel    http://gnupanel.org/
> OpenPanel   http://www.openpanel.com/
> ispCP Omega http://isp-control.net/
> RavenCore   http://www.ravencore.com/
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
>
>  On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Robert Blayzor <[email protected]
>> >wrote:
>>
>>  On Apr 13, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>>>
>>>  That said, most of the information I'm looking for revolves around
>>>> security and performance issues, user management, and just what
>>>> additional
>>>> php and perl modules to offer as standard.  Very basic stuff, but I'm
>>>> looking for broad outlines and the experience of others...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Might want to save yourself a bunch of trouble and look at something like
>>> CPanel.  Just install a base FreeBSD 7.x or Linux (ie: CentOS, etc) and
>>> away
>>> you go.  Basically turns the box into an appliance and they have service
>>> provider based monthly leasing that's very cost effective.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Robert Blayzor, BOFH
>>> INOC, LLC
>>> [email protected]
>>> http://www.inoc.net/~rblayzor/ <http://www.inoc.net/%7Erblayzor/> <
>>> http://www.inoc.net/%7Erblayzor/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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