From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 25 15:30:33 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 C709C16A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:30:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kerplunk.tbe.net (kerplunk.tbe.net [209.123.115.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7796D43D31 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:30:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) Received: from kerplunk.tbe.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kerplunk.tbe.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB0B5CB4; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:29:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (gary@localhost)j2PFTquE097684; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:29:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) X-Authentication-Warning: kerplunk.tbe.net: gary owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:29:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <424426B9.80909@mac.com> Message-ID: <20050325102502.C91422@kerplunk.tbe.net> References: <424426B9.80909@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org cc: joe 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 15:30:33 -0000 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 > light-to-medium load. > > -- > -Chuck > "cPanel" is kinda like Webmin for users, which allows the hosting user to control all aspects of their hosting infrastructure, from additional users, to mail accounts and aliases, domain pointers and redirects, database setup and administration, etc. Personally, I don't use it because of it's cost (something like $1500 for a single-server license 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 ago. In response to the 5.3 question, I'm in the same boat as Chuck, most of my production servers are a mix of 4.{10|11} and 4-STABLE, but I've had a production server for some medium use up since 5.2.1-RELEASE (up to 5-STABLE at the moment), and I'm about to start rolling out all my new boxes as 5.4 when its released, and eventually turn over the 4-series boxes to them when it comes time to rebuild them. -Gary