Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:21:43 -0500 (EST) From: Mike <mikey@kappaisle.com> To: dave@allunix.com Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web-based control panel for hosting clients. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003291100300.4164-100000@greencreek.kappaisle.com> In-Reply-To: <200003282335.PAA04903@web1.allunix.com>
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David, It seems that deploying H*Sphere requires tweaking of several key system configurations, and I believe that most of them would be done with sudo processes. What I would do is setting up another server for H*Sphere, and setup a separate DNS for this Web Control Panel (i.e. control.domain.com points to H*Sphere server) for hosting clients to logon. For scalability, since H*Sphere uses SQL server to store most of the data, you can setup several web servers on the front-end, and SQL server (H*Sphere uses PostgreSQL) on the back-end to handle growing requests and provide redundancy. For shell users, you probably need to setup the mail reader to access the SQL server to retrieve email if you'd like to allow shell users to have the same mails in inbox as their web-based email account. In addition, it is possible to tweak sendmail or qmail (H*Sphere current uses sendmail but will migrate to qmail in future release) to deliver incoming mails to SQL server, and also able to make POP3/IMAP servers to work with SQL. The level of complexity involved is quite significant if you really want to migrate existing systems to work with H*Sphere's structure. I have already request trial of this product and will perform some tests and integrate it with our existing infrastructure. Hopefully, things might not be as complicated as it seems. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Regards, Mike On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 dave@allunix.com wrote: > Mike, > > I am in the same situation as you, an ISP which would like to offer > something like the Plus Mail system, which is a web based > interface for doing redirects .htaccess and such. It does appear > that h sphere fills all of our needs but I am concerned about their > script overwriting all of my configurations? > > Does this mean that any changes made outside of the interface will > be overwrote? > > Could you let me know what you think if you try it on a production > box? > > Thank you, > > David DeTinne > Allunix Consulting > On 28 Mar 00, at 9:17, Mike wrote: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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