Karl R. Balsmeier wrote: > Howdy, > > I use Cpanel currently, and have tried two other products in the past. > > It creates all of the FTP/www/mysql/mailman/ssh and other essentials in > mere seconds. It has about 25-35 different packages that it enables, like > phpBB, php-nuke, post-nuke, e-107, mambo, geeklog, OSCommerce carts, you > name it. All from a single command line. > cPanel is also insecure, and does not use CentOS packages for core operations. ( including httpd / php / ftp etc ) - and for their own packages, they usually take months and months to fix security issues ( if they are ever fixed ). Using or trying to use CentOS packages in place of those cPanel packages will render the machine unusable. Just look at the stream of cPanel users with hacked machines that come through the #centos at irc.freenode.net channel so... when you think about Control / web panels' look at security and where the packages are going to come from.... -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq