Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:22:23 -0500 From: "joe" <joe@futratec.com> To: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net>, "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ISP Software Message-ID: <A45A8A2547B8024DA9929C43BD5F016D03EBEE@circinus.futratec.lan>
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Thank you Chuck and Gary for the replies.=20
May I ask you both how you give your clients services e.g. email, =
website etc. and how you allow access to their accounts to configure say =
email or their websites: e.g. ssh, webmin etc.?
Cheers
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary D. Margiotta [mailto:gary@tbe.net]
Sent: Fri 3/25/2005 10:29 AM
To: Chuck Swiger
Cc: joe; freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ISP Software
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On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> joe wrote:
>> Can anyone point me to a good all around software package designed =
for
>> ISPers that would do the job of say cPanel or something similar that
>> will work with FreeBSD. If there is something open source that would =
be
>> fantastic. Is FreeBSD 5.3 stable enough to be used as an ISP Box
>> (server)?
>
> I'm not sure what "cPanel" is, but perhaps something like WebMin would =
serve?
>
> Most of my servers are at 4.10 or 4.11, but I've got one trial machine =
> running 5.3 that has been running just fine for ~45 days under a=20
> light-to-medium load.
>
> --=20
> -Chuck
>
"cPanel" is kinda like Webmin for users, which allows the hosting user =
to=20
control all aspects of their hosting infrastructure, from additional=20
users, to mail accounts and aliases, domain pointers and redirects,=20
database setup and administration, etc. Personally, I don't use it=20
because of it's cost (something like $1500 for a single-server license=20
IIRC last time I looked), but I don't know of any alternatives. BTW, as =
far as I remember, cPanel does run on FreeBSD, at least it did a while=20
ago.
In response to the 5.3 question, I'm in the same boat as Chuck, most of =
my=20
production servers are a mix of 4.{10|11} and 4-STABLE, but I've had a=20
production server for some medium use up since 5.2.1-RELEASE (up to=20
5-STABLE at the moment), and I'm about to start rolling out all my new=20
boxes as 5.4 when its released, and eventually turn over the 4-series=20
boxes to them when it comes time to rebuild them.
-Gary
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