On 2/5/06, Dustin Krysak mailinglists@backbonetechnology.com wrote:
Hi there i was wondering if anyone on this list has any comments on CPanel vs Plesk on Centos 4+? Looking for the one that best work with the "out of the box" RPMs for Centos.
Knee-jerk response I'd say "neither". The cpanel people seem to generally be good folks, but I don't approve of how they handle packages because.. well, they don't. They have you build custom cpanel software such as mysql, apache etc, and they seem to be perpetually behind the latest security updates with respect to what they do support in the distro. If you decide to use cpanel, be prepared to be told to ask them for help, because they don't use the distro supplied software. I have no real opinion of plesk, because I've never used it, nor have I heard of others using it. The task of administration is best left to admins, and best done from the command line (in my opinion). With gui tools such as cpanel, webmin, and plesk you're only able to configure the software as well as the person who wrote the gui understands it and was able to script for.
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