ISP Software

[joe]

Thank you Chuck and Gary for the replies. 

May I ask you both how you give your clients services e.g. email, website etc. and how you allow access to their accounts to configure say email or their websites: e.g. ssh, webmin etc.?

Cheers


-----Original Message-----
From: Gary D. Margiotta [mailto:gary at tbe.net]
Sent: Fri 3/25/2005 10:29 AM
To: Chuck Swiger
Cc: joe; freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ISP Software
 
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