web hosting best practices

[Charles Sprickman]

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 at 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 at inoc.net
>> http://www.inoc.net/~rblayzor/ <http://www.inoc.net/%7Erblayzor/>
>>
>>
>>
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