Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:53:28 +0700 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Robert Blayzor <rblayzor.bulk@inoc.net> Subject: Re: web hosting best practices Message-ID: <5635aa0d0904132153u50786dd9v69ac92719d9923c2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0904132318450.579@hotlap.local> References: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0904132039340.579@hotlap.local> <5F58EE61-2E49-4A51-9760-35965DA9BF08@inoc.net> <5635aa0d0904132008t4ae8285due381e5deb791e4f@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.OSX.2.00.0904132318450.579@hotlap.local>
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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 <spork@bway.net> 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 <rblayzor.bulk@inoc.net >> >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 >>> rblayzor@inoc.net >>> http://www.inoc.net/~rblayzor/ <http://www.inoc.net/%7Erblayzor/>; < >>> http://www.inoc.net/%7Erblayzor/>; >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> >>
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