From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 25 22:36:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4922416A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:36:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.futratec.com (rrcs-24-73-239-230.se.biz.rr.com [24.73.239.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5166E43D2F for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:36:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@futratec.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:22:23 -0500 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Message-ID: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.6944.0 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: ISP Software Thread-Index: AcUxTZvlpmTaPcvLRMCeHeMsWA4iRwAOitSb From: "joe" To: "Gary D. Margiotta" , "Chuck Swiger" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ISP Software X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:36:45 -0000 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 =20 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