From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 25 11:37:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org 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 9D99A16A41C for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 11:37:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stormspotter@6Texans.net) Received: from longbow.arroway.com (mymortgageforeclosures.com [66.252.139.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0ED0143D1D for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 11:37:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stormspotter@6Texans.net) Received: (qmail 32502 invoked by uid 1007); 25 May 2005 11:37:32 -0000 Received: from stormspotter@6Texans.net by longbow by uid 1004 with qmail-scanner-1.22-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.81. spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(216.87.134.162):. Processed in 0.435342 secs); 25 May 2005 11:37:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jacob.6texans.net) (216.87.134.162) by longbow.arroway.com with SMTP; 25 May 2005 11:37:32 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 06:37:31 -0500 From: Jacob S To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050525063731.71bb39e5@jacob.6texans.net> In-Reply-To: <42943FF1.2010600@nativenerds.com> References: <42943FF1.2010600@nativenerds.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Cpanel or DirectAdmin X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 11:37:34 -0000 On Wed, 25 May 2005 03:05:53 -0600 Ed Stover wrote: > I was just wondering if any of you have had experience with either > cpanel and directadmin on FreeBSD. If you had, then what was or is > your experience like? Where the applications confining for what you > could do with the server? What was your MTA with either apps and was > it a painful process? Would you recomend either program for use across > seperate web, email, dns, and fileservers? I have been maintaining a server running FreeBSD 5.3 with cPanel installed. It has worked fairly decently - but only after I disabled the nightly upcp script in cron. :-) Previous to that, the script occasionally crashed the server and/or updated programs like Bind without using the proper flags at compile time, making them move to /usr/local/bin and the init scripts stop working. The mailer that cPanel has control over is Exim. Also this server handles a little over 200 websites and incoming e-mail for those sites. MySQL is done on a separate server, as is outgoing e-mail (qmail) - neither of which cPanel has control over. Overall, I haven't been that impressed with cPanel. But then again, I like doing everything from the command line anyway. Unfortunately, I have zero experience with DirectAdmin. HTH, Jacob