Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:18:46 -0500 From: Mark Price <mprice@tqhosting.com> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ispCP or alternative? Message-ID: <61b6fbec0912090718u51e45ee8o7031099995210452@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091209144510.GA89359@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20091209144510.GA89359@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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Hi Michael, We use and support DirectAdmin on FreeBSD, I'd recommend you take a look at it: http://www.directadmin.com Out of the box there are 3 levels of access - admin-level (superuser), reseller-level (creates web hosting accounts), and user-level (web hosting account owner). In practice if you are providing shared web hosting service, your support staff would do most of their work at reseller-level. The end-user access you mentioned (i.e. someone who just has an email account on a domain) isn't built into the base product but there is a free plugin that should do what you want, details here http://directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22715 As with all control panels, there is a learning curve but I've found DirectAdmin to be the best all around fit. It is stable and mature unlike most of the open source ones, and doesn't cost a fortune or do completely unexpected things like cPanel. Regards, Mark RootBSD http://www.rootbsd.net On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Michael W. Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in need of a general "control panel" solution for an ISP. I'm > considering ispCP, but there appear to be several minor annoyances > with getting it to run on FreeBSD. Other options include dtc > (/usr/ports/sysutils/dtc), CPanel, etc. It appears that there's many > pieces of software that work only on very specific FreeBSD revs, some > that don't seem to have been used for several years, etc. > > Ideally, I'd have a piece of software with three levels of access: > admin level where our support staff could provision new domains, a > customer admin who could add and remove customer email accounts and > Web server access, and end-user access to their own email, forwarding, > etc. > > What are you folks using successfully? Or, what have you tried to use > and wish you hadn't? > > Thanks, > ==ml > > -- > Michael W. Lucas mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org > http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/ > Latest book: Cisco Routers for the Desperate, 2nd Edition > http://www.CiscoRoutersForTheDesperate.com/ > _______________________________________________ > 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" >help
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