Open Source softwares in FreeBSD for web hosting platform

[Tek Bahadur Limbu]

Hi All,

I know that this question has been asked on this list in the past. So I
am sorry for repeating it.

However, I would like to know the current answers and views on this
question.

Basically, I want to know which software you might be using as a Site
configuration and management application for web hosting services.

It will be used primarily to control about 500-1000 virtual domains.

I know that there are Cpanel and Plesk which are very good commercial
softwares catering the needs for a good web based management tool.

So far, I have only tried out RAQdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/

It seems good but is quite limited in it's features.

So I would like to know more open source softwares used for this type of
services.


Thanking you...
--
With best regards and good wishes,

Yours sincerely,

Tek Bahadur Limbu

System Administrator

(TAG/TDG Group)
Jwl Systems Department

Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Jawalakhel, Nepal

http://www.wlink.com.np

http://teklimbu.wordpress.com

[Andrey Slusar]

Post by Tek Bahadur Limbu
I know that this question has been asked on this list in the past. So
I am sorry for repeating it.
However, I would like to know the current answers and views on this
question.
Basically, I want to know which software you might be using as a Site
configuration and management application for web hosting services.
It will be used primarily to control about 500-1000 virtual domains.
I know that there are Cpanel and Plesk which are very good commercial
softwares catering the needs for a good web based management tool.
So far, I have only tried out RAQdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/

For commercial hostings needs commercial panels. Open source
alternatives is very buggy and less functionality. DirectAdmin, ISP
Manager commercial panels is not needs many costs for life time
licenses or functionality is very good.

Post by Tek Bahadur Limbu
It seems good but is quite limited in it's features.
So I would like to know more open source softwares used for this type
of services.

Free panels: vhcs, ispconfig.

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 6:46 AM
To: Tek Bahadur Limbu
Subject: Re: Open Source softwares in FreeBSD for web hosting platform

Post by Tek Bahadur Limbu
I know that this question has been asked on this list in the past. So
I am sorry for repeating it.
However, I would like to know the current answers and views on this
question.
Basically, I want to know which software you might be using as a Site
configuration and management application for web hosting services.
It will be used primarily to control about 500-1000 virtual domains.
I know that there are Cpanel and Plesk which are very good commercial
softwares catering the needs for a good web based management tool.
So far, I have only tried out RAQdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/

For commercial hostings needs commercial panels.

Not really true. It depends on what your charging. If your charging
the equivalent of $4.99 a month USD for a light duty site then your
customers
are cheapskates who are going to be satisfied with whatever you give
then, commercial or not.

The commercial control panels are appropriate for hosts that are
charging some real money for the service.

Ted

[Tek Bahadur Limbu]

Hi Andrey and Ted,

Post by Ted Mittelstaedt

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 6:46 AM
To: Tek Bahadur Limbu
Subject: Re: Open Source softwares in FreeBSD for web hosting platform

Post by Tek Bahadur Limbu
I know that this question has been asked on this list in the past. So
I am sorry for repeating it.
However, I would like to know the current answers and views on this
question.
Basically, I want to know which software you might be using as a Site
configuration and management application for web hosting services.
It will be used primarily to control about 500-1000 virtual domains.
I know that there are Cpanel and Plesk which are very good commercial
softwares catering the needs for a good web based management tool.
So far, I have only tried out RAQdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/

For commercial hostings needs commercial panels.

Not really true. It depends on what your charging. If your charging
the equivalent of $4.99 a month USD for a light duty site then your
customers
are cheapskates who are going to be satisfied with whatever you give
then, commercial or not.
The commercial control panels are appropriate for hosts that are
charging some real money for the service.

I guess you are correct. The price will be equivalent to less than $9.99
a month. I think VHCS or ISPConfig will serve me good.

From their sites, both are only available for Linux based systems.
Anyway, I will setup VHCS in a Debian box.

Once again, thanks alot for your input and suggestions.

Thanking you...

Post by Ted Mittelstaedt
Ted
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With best regards and good wishes,

Yours sincerely,

Tek Bahadur Limbu

System Administrator

(TAG/TDG Group)
Jwl Systems Department

Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Jawalakhel, Nepal

http://www.wlink.com.np

http://teklimbu.wordpress.com

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 12:52 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
Subject: Re: Open Source softwares in FreeBSD for web hosting platform
Hi Andrey and Ted,

Post by Ted Mittelstaedt

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 6:46 AM
To: Tek Bahadur Limbu
Subject: Re: Open Source softwares in FreeBSD for web hosting platform

Post by Tek Bahadur Limbu
I know that this question has been asked on this list in the past. So
I am sorry for repeating it.
However, I would like to know the current answers and views on this
question.
Basically, I want to know which software you might be using as a Site
configuration and management application for web hosting services.
It will be used primarily to control about 500-1000 virtual domains.
I know that there are Cpanel and Plesk which are very good commercial
softwares catering the needs for a good web based management tool.
So far, I have only tried out RAQdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/

For commercial hostings needs commercial panels.

Not really true. It depends on what your charging. If your charging
the equivalent of $4.99 a month USD for a light duty site then your
customers
are cheapskates who are going to be satisfied with whatever you give
then, commercial or not.
The commercial control panels are appropriate for hosts that are
charging some real money for the service.

I guess you are correct. The price will be equivalent to less than $9.99
a month. I think VHCS or ISPConfig will serve me good.
From their sites, both are only available for Linux based systems.
Anyway, I will setup VHCS in a Debian box.

We actually use webmin ourselves. Although, we do not give the
users any access to control panels whatsoever. The major thing
they use them for is setting up mysql databases, and we make
them ask us to do that for them. Since most users don't need to
do this, it really isn't much of a support burden. The biggest
support burden with users is getting them to figure out how to
use their FTP or whatever file transfer software, or publish-shit
button on frontpage (thank the maker that MS finally officially
struck that product, so we can get away with punting on support
of ancient free copies of this. People who can't figure out frontpage
don't have any business making websites)

Ted

[Ovi]

Post by Tek Bahadur Limbu
Hi All,
I know that this question has been asked on this list in the past. So
I am sorry for repeating it.
However, I would like to know the current answers and views on this
question.
Basically, I want to know which software you might be using as a Site
configuration and management application for web hosting services.
It will be used primarily to control about 500-1000 virtual domains.
I know that there are Cpanel and Plesk which are very good commercial
softwares catering the needs for a good web based management tool.
So far, I have only tried out RAQdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/
It seems good but is quite limited in it's features.
So I would like to know more open source softwares used for this type
of services.
Thanking you...

We are using syscp and it works well. (you will need to modify it to
suit your needs, the source code is clean and easy to modify).
Any open source software you try, it is not 100% complete (as far as I
know, from my experience with open source web panels), so you will have
to modify the code. The bad thing with syscp is that dns server is not
configurable from web interface (there is a patch, but it allows you to
modify DNS only from admin account, which is not good, I think you will
need regular users to be able to configure their own dns servers), so
this is one thing you must add. I asume you need 3 types of accounts,
admin account, reseller account and user account.
http://www.syscp.org/

best regards,
ovi

[Grant Peel]

We, and many hundreds of other hosts use Webmin/Usermin/Virtualmin.

It is free,
It is robust,
There are tons of third party mods to use,
Learning how to create your own mods is easy,
It is secure.

www.webmin.com

-Grant
----- Original Message -----
From: Tek Bahadur Limbu
To: Ovi
Cc: freebsd-***@freebsd.org
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: Open Source softwares in FreeBSD for web hosting platform


Hi Ovi,

Post by Ovi

Post by Tek Bahadur Limbu
Hi All,
I know that this question has been asked on this list in the past. So
I am sorry for repeating it.
However, I would like to know the current answers and views on this
question.
Basically, I want to know which software you might be using as a Site
configuration and management application for web hosting services.
It will be used primarily to control about 500-1000 virtual domains.
I know that there are Cpanel and Plesk which are very good commercial
softwares catering the needs for a good web based management tool.
So far, I have only tried out RAQdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/
It seems good but is quite limited in it's features.
So I would like to know more open source softwares used for this type
of services.
Thanking you...

We are using syscp and it works well. (you will need to modify it to
suit your needs, the source code is clean and easy to modify).
Any open source software you try, it is not 100% complete (as far as I
know, from my experience with open source web panels), so you will have
to modify the code. The bad thing with syscp is that dns server is not
configurable from web interface (there is a patch, but it allows you to
modify DNS only from admin account, which is not good, I think you will
need regular users to be able to configure their own dns servers), so
this is one thing you must add. I asume you need 3 types of accounts,
admin account, reseller account and user account.
http://www.syscp.org/

I have heard about syscp and will definitely try it once. But I am not
very familiar with coding. Apart of the DNS configurations, do we need
to hack the code?

By the way, how many virtual domains are you currently managing with syscp?


Thanking you...

Post by Ovi
best regards,
ovi

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With best regards and good wishes,

Yours sincerely,

Tek Bahadur Limbu

System Administrator

(TAG/TDG Group)
Jwl Systems Department

Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Jawalakhel, Nepal

http://www.wlink.com.np

http://teklimbu.wordpress.com
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[Tek Bahadur Limbu]

Hi Grant,

Post by Grant Peel
We, and many hundreds of other hosts use Webmin/Usermin/Virtualmin.
It is free,
It is robust,
There are tons of third party mods to use,
Learning how to create your own mods is easy,
It is secure.
www.webmin.com

Thanks for your suggestions.

I did not know that webmin could be used for a web hosting platform. I
mean that I have only heard negative comments about it. And I thought
that it was over bloated and was full of unwanted services thus making
it very insecure.

Now that you have mentioned it and corrected my thinking, I will
definitely look into it and consider it.

Thanking you...

Post by Grant Peel
-Grant
----- Original Message -----
From: Tek Bahadur Limbu
To: Ovi
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: Open Source softwares in FreeBSD for web hosting platform
Hi Ovi,

Post by Ovi

Post by Tek Bahadur Limbu
Hi All,
I know that this question has been asked on this list in the past. So
I am sorry for repeating it.
However, I would like to know the current answers and views on this
question.
Basically, I want to know which software you might be using as a Site
configuration and management application for web hosting services.
It will be used primarily to control about 500-1000 virtual domains.
I know that there are Cpanel and Plesk which are very good commercial
softwares catering the needs for a good web based management tool.
So far, I have only tried out RAQdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/
It seems good but is quite limited in it's features.
So I would like to know more open source softwares used for this type
of services.
Thanking you...

We are using syscp and it works well. (you will need to modify it to
suit your needs, the source code is clean and easy to modify).
Any open source software you try, it is not 100% complete (as far as I
know, from my experience with open source web panels), so you will have
to modify the code. The bad thing with syscp is that dns server is not
configurable from web interface (there is a patch, but it allows you to
modify DNS only from admin account, which is not good, I think you will
need regular users to be able to configure their own dns servers), so
this is one thing you must add. I asume you need 3 types of accounts,
admin account, reseller account and user account.
http://www.syscp.org/

I have heard about syscp and will definitely try it once. But I am not
very familiar with coding. Apart of the DNS configurations, do we need
to hack the code?
By the way, how many virtual domains are you currently managing with syscp?
Thanking you...

Post by Ovi
best regards,
ovi

--
With best regards and good wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Tek Bahadur Limbu
System Administrator
(TAG/TDG Group)
Jwl Systems Department
Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Jawalakhel, Nepal
http://www.wlink.com.np
http://teklimbu.wordpress.com
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Yours sincerely,

Tek Bahadur Limbu

System Administrator

(TAG/TDG Group)
Jwl Systems Department

Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Jawalakhel, Nepal

http://www.wlink.com.np

http://teklimbu.wordpress.com

[Tek Bahadur Limbu]

Hi Ovi,

Post by Ovi

Post by Tek Bahadur Limbu
Hi All,
I know that this question has been asked on this list in the past. So
I am sorry for repeating it.
However, I would like to know the current answers and views on this
question.
Basically, I want to know which software you might be using as a Site
configuration and management application for web hosting services.
It will be used primarily to control about 500-1000 virtual domains.
I know that there are Cpanel and Plesk which are very good commercial
softwares catering the needs for a good web based management tool.
So far, I have only tried out RAQdevil http://www.raqdevil.com/
It seems good but is quite limited in it's features.
So I would like to know more open source softwares used for this type
of services.
Thanking you...

We are using syscp and it works well. (you will need to modify it to
suit your needs, the source code is clean and easy to modify).
Any open source software you try, it is not 100% complete (as far as I
know, from my experience with open source web panels), so you will have
to modify the code. The bad thing with syscp is that dns server is not
configurable from web interface (there is a patch, but it allows you to
modify DNS only from admin account, which is not good, I think you will
need regular users to be able to configure their own dns servers), so
this is one thing you must add. I asume you need 3 types of accounts,
admin account, reseller account and user account.
http://www.syscp.org/

I have heard about syscp and will definitely try it once. But I am not
very familiar with coding. Apart of the DNS configurations, do we need
to hack the code?

By the way, how many virtual domains are you currently managing with syscp?


Thanking you...

Post by Ovi
best regards,
ovi

--
With best regards and good wishes,

Yours sincerely,

Tek Bahadur Limbu

System Administrator

(TAG/TDG Group)
Jwl Systems Department

Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.

Jawalakhel, Nepal

http://www.wlink.com.np

http://teklimbu.wordpress.com

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