On Monday 10 July 2006 19:48, 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. > > Hook it up to your favorite domain provider through a vendor relationship, > you can automate the entire domain selection/ web hosting/ site creation > paradigm. I'm used to having someone up in 10 minutes once they tell me > the domain name desired, or they input it into my forms. > > Last step once you are big enough, is to hook in an online payment API > like modernbill or ensim or other, these integrate with Cpanel, Plesk, > H-Shpere and the like, and basically look/ feel like what the rest of the > net runs when you visit folks like powersurge.net or whomever else of the > bazillion hosting firms are out there. > > Be you small fry or juggernaut, most folks are using either Plesk or > Cpanel or H-Sphere type tools to automate their hosted environments. > > A yearly license is around 400 US (install is included free of charge), > but totally worth it when you consider it takes alot of time to sit and > edit your zone files in DNS manually, httpd.conf, and mysql command, and > FTP server commands. > > Ick, it makes me shudder to remember back to those days. whew. those > darn typos every now and again in a virtualhost directory statement, or > worse yet, a missing dot or forgotten serial number increment in a zone > file. > > CentOS is the favorite of Cpanel and H-Shpere vendors these days, and > Plesk seems to be a WinTel type firm, -who's coders and support teams are > based in yes, Russia. Cpanel is in Virginia I think, and H-sphere/Comodo > are canada/germany combo, known as Positive Software, but under constant > internal shift for whatever reason. > > Cpanel has shown me the best support model, when they fail to answer a > question I ask for two hours (once in 2 years), they automatically award > you a high-priority $65.00 phone incident. They are fast and won't leave > you hanging, often just beaming onto the server and fixing rare breakage > one might cause performing normal maintenance. > > CentOS is highly appealing because the user community is deeply > informative and quick to respond. This is perhaps one of the many reasons > vendors put in one of the top positions for what OS to install their > product on, if not *the* top. > > -be well, and good luck in your hosting! > > -karlski > > > 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. > > > > Thanks > > > > Mace > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Recently i configured a webserver for a friend of mine and webmin was what the webmaster enjoyed the most :) I find it easy to setup and once you cut off ¾ of the icons on the webmin interface it starts to look good. I never trusted cpannel, things break here and there for no reason. later, charles -- Charles Lacroix, Administrateur UNIX. Service des télécommunications et des technologies Cégep de Sainte-Foy (418) 659-6600 # 4266