[CentOS] Hosting

Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob at darkover.org
Tue Jul 11 01:38:52 UTC 2006


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On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 09:10:40AM -0700, Mace Eliason wrote:
> Hi
>  
> I am using Centos 4.3 to host various web sites that I maintain.  I am finding
> that I am getting more and more, and I have thought of setting up a hosting
> server to make things quicker for my self. I have setup webmin with virtualmin
> and it seems to work fine so far.  What is everyone else using.  I don't want
> to invest alot of money, but would like some thing that is quick and easy to
> setup a domain and mysql database, ftp etc.  Right now I have to edit httpd,
> etc etc.

I know I'm a weirdo, but my "control panel" is actually MySQL.

When I install a new server, I also install a set of custom packages,
and after that point, 99.9% of the server is controled using MySQL.
I want to include a new domain ? Good, I just add it to a couple tables
in MySQL, and it is done. E-Mail, web, everything is controled there.
I only need a couple scripts for the initial setup (for now, I'm working
on getting rid of those) of some directories, and from that point on,
everything is done either using mysql CLI, or any other mysql client.

Yes, that means I have to maintain some packages myself. But since all
my customizations are in the form for patches, I can simply get a new
src.rpm whenever a security fix is released, change the specfile to
use my patch, and I'm done. Usually takes 10 minutes of work tops.
Sometimes even less.

Having everything on MySQL is also great when I need to generate
reports. That was the original reason for my project, to be able to
create custom reports in a matter of minutes.

I'm currently working on a MySQL based webhosting solution. It should
be ready in about 10 years or so, so don't hold your breath.

[]s

- -- 
Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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