From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Mar 28 15:31: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from web1.allunix.com (17.93.rsvl.dsl.quiknet.com [207.231.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9495D37B7DC for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 15:30:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@allunix.com) Received: from laptop ([192.168.3.5]) by web1.allunix.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA04903; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 15:35:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dave@allunix.com) Message-Id: <200003282335.PAA04903@web1.allunix.com> From: dave@allunix.com To: Mike Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 15:40:28 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Web-based control panel for hosting clients. Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4.2.0.58.20000327155910.00bff920@mail.voltage.net> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v3.12b) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: > Deal all, > > Thank you all for your prompt and helpful replies, we really appreciate > it. > > As many have suggested, Webmin does the types of features we'd > like. However, from our experience, webmin seems to be more for the > system administrators rather than for web hosting clients eventhough > you can create different user accounts with specific privilege and > services the clients can administrate. The other concern is that webmin > runs as a mini HTTP server itself, and we don't have any clue how good it > is in handling large concurrent requests and other performance and > security issues. > > What Susie has recommended here definitely worth a visit. The > H*Sphere product does exactly what we're looking for. For those who are > interested, you may find out more information at: > > http://www.psoft.net/ > > Thank you all once again for all the solutions. > > Regards, > > Mike > > > On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Susie Ward wrote: > > > At 03:48 PM 3/27/00 -0500, Mike wrote: > > >We operate a small ISP with FreeBSD servers and would like to implement > > >web-based control panel for hosting clients to check/add/remove/modify > > >information and certain services. However, we are considering the costs > > >between in-house development and purchase a configure-and-run package. > > > > I don't know if it has all the features you're needing, but here is > > something that might work for you: > > > > http://www.psoft.net/ > > > > Check out their H*Sphere product. I haven't tried it myself yet, but it > > looks very nice and the price can't be beat ($500 per 1k customers). > > > > Susie > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message