Newbie: C-panel questions?

Hello Everyone,

I am newbie and need some help. Please share your experience with us.

Q: How many domains C-Panel supports?

Q: How many sub-domains c-panel supports?

Q: Do you need a control panel (such as c-panel) ONLY if you are a hosting reseller?

We are NOT going to resell hosting at all.
So my questions are more from the view of site administrator/webmaster.

We are soon going to launch our dating sites network (similar type of site match.com or AmericanSingles.com ). We will have 115 different domains ( with different looks of homepages but exact same links and functionality) all linked to the same central MySQL database in real-time.

Q: So can it be helpful for us to manage our dating sites network using C-panel instaed of plain RedHat 9?

Q: Will it make our life easier as far as mails/auto-responders/FTP back-ups are concerned?

Q: How do you comare c-panel to ensim etc. for :

* ease of use * functionality wise

Any other suggestions.

Thanks a lot for all your help and comments?

Regards,

Kumar

Come on friends! Put some light my C-panel question. Please.

Regarding domains cPanel can support as many domains as your server can...depending on the resources available and this goes with the sub domains as well.

If you are a hosting reseller you will get both cPanel for the end user and WHM for you as the reseller.

I have worked with cPanel/WHM, Ensim, PLESK, HELM and I must say that I prefer cPanel/WHM because it is user friendly and I like it. It might be best for you to wait and see what others have to say :)

cPanel >> *

Cpanel provides a large number of tools for administrators to use. Things such as a apache recompile can be a long proccess but cpanel provides a simple way to do this and includes lots of great scripts that make server management a little easier.

Thanks everyone for your comments.

Looks like C-pabel is the way to go.

Q: Does C-panel support RH 9 and MySQL 4? Are these versions of RH and MySQL supported by c-panel yet?

Thanks.

Rick Kumar

Yes they are both supported on RH9.

Originally posted by TheVoice
Yes they are both supported on RH9.

Ditto :)

cpanel is bloated, buggy, very badly (meaning not at all) documented and supported (you'll never know what has been changed in a new release), and has way too many outdated software/features in it. once you take one step from the defaults, you'll have to drop/heavily modify cpanel also. it has some nice scripts, but easyapache is definitely not one of them - it's one of the most broken apache build scripts. you better not use it on a production server too often or end up with long downtimes and full partition of core files. chkservd and clustering are about the only two things in cpanel which make it worth having, but if you compare the licensing cost with the benefit of having few simple 10Kb utilities... not worth it, unless you get it for free :)

if you are going to create a large number of similar servers, your best bet would be to hire someone to configure and secure it by hand the way you need it and then deploy that config on other servers, too.

I myself won't be doing much with c-panel. I will have an experienced server administrator if we go with c-panel.

Thanks.

Kumar

Yes, I'll admit CPanel has issues, but realistically what control panel doesn't?

Ensim? Well, they're about to have huge problems unless they upgrade to supporting redhat 9, as the EOL for redhat 7.xxx is vastly approaching. That just shows how well their dev process is though;)

I've not seen any other Control Panel as stable and well developed as CPanel, and believe me, I've seen a few in my day. Yes, CPanel's got bugs, but any program you'll find has those, ESPECIALLY any program that covers the vast majority of OS'es like CP does, one that's developed and added to on an (almost) daily basis.

Documentation? CPanel / WHM is pretty much straight forward, you don't really need any.

Support? Every time (every) I've filled out a support request for CPanel, no matter the request, I've found that they're always responsive. No problems there whatsoever.

Comparing CPanel to Ensim is really unfair, as CPanel's very developed, provides support for its services, updates nightly and is quite easy to setup and use. Ensim, uggh, you get inside that mess and good luck. It's got well known python issues, no support (you change the kernel from the only (outdated) one they support, they refuse to support your server), the list goes on and on.

If you're going to go with a Control Panel, go with CPanel. It's easy to work around, quite so, there's a rather large list of features, updates and whatnot, the forums (forums.cpanel.net) provide almost instant support for anything you need, and what you can't find there, you can submit a support request for, and they'll have it answered in a reasonable amount of time (depending on the severity of the problem, I've seen them take up to 2 days, but that's pretty good considering their client base).