ISP Software

[Sam Nilsson]

joe wrote:
> 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.?

I know you didn't ask me, but I thought I'd answer anyway ;-). Hope you 
don't mind...

I built a control system using php a year and a half ago. This includes 
a minimal billing system as well ask account/settings management. I am 
going to (soon) rebuild the system with better design, more and better 
features etc. using a python application server called webware 
http://www.w4py.org/. In both cases (current system and future one)
all hosting and account related data is stored in mysql, although ssh 
accounts may also go in /etc/passwd I haven't decided on that yet.

In essence, my control panel is very similar in functionality to CPanel, 
though I didn't know it until recently when I actually looked at a 
CPanel demo site.

Interested to hear others' replies to this question.

- Sam Nilsson