Marco Huggenberger wrote:
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:14:30 +0100, Manuel Krummenacher wrote
[Hosting Control Panel]
If you're really wanna take the "best tool" for your requirements, then maybee you have to create something like the overview at forensoftware [3]. Please drop me a line if you wanna collect all the information on our SwiNOG Wiki [4].
Thank you for the info and the links! I looked through the links listed on the Debian Wiki.
A short summary:
AlternC: documentation is mostly in french (a language which I try to avoid since school ;-) Account Services Manager: seems to be dead, last version released in 2002 Baifox: version 0.1.2 released on 30-10-2005, not final yet Domain Technology Control: actual version is 0.17.0 R3, not stable enough for me Freeside: is a billing and ticketing system, does not suit my needs Fusion Management Console: currently in alpha status, could become an interesting software (Web 2.0! AJAX! XML! ;-) GNU Hosting Helper: supports multiple servers, too complex for me Host4NET: a Webmin Module, too complex for me (and I don't want to install Webmin) Interworx: too complex (clustering etc.), not free software ISPConfig: seems to be comparable to VHCS ISPMan: at least a number too big for me: "ISPMan is a system to design massive ISPs using LDAP as the backend." OpenHSP: not yet finished QmailAdmin: only for Qmail (nomen est omen) RAQdevil: for FreeBSD (maybe you could get this to work on Linux, but with no support) Ravencore: actual version is 0.1.1, not stable enough for me SysCP: seems to be an alternative to VHCS and ISPConfig; disadvantage: configuration changes are made through a cron job, therefore no instant changes (I can hear the phone ring: "I just added a subdomain, but it doesn't work!") Tequila: only for Postfix Usermin: needs Webmin, not for hosting providers (the user can change mail forwardings and cron jobs, but not creating a subdomain or adding a ftp user) VHCS: professionals use it, can not be bad ;-) (but had security problems in the past, more on that later) vHost: seems to be too complex to manage one server Virtualmin: needs Webmin web-cp: "working toward version 1.0": I'll eventually have a look at it when it's finished Webmin: only for the admin, not for the users ZPanel: includes a billing solution, too complex for me
You are free to put this information into the SwiNOG Wiki, but I don't think my evaluation criteria are the same as yours! ;-)
I will stay with VHCS for the time being. But first I have to reinstall my server, some guys which are definitive not my friends exploited the recent security bug in VHCS and played around with their freshly uploaded PHP remote shells... note to self: Update your software, _including_ the one you are "only" testing (or test it in a closed environment and not on the live server)! And perhaps I could think about installing mod_security.
A little question at the end: Is everybody welcome at the SwiNOG meetings? I do not work at an ISP, but am very interested in networking stuff.
Cheers, Manuel