I run a web community of about 200 members and am looking for a management tool

I've been accepting donations to move to better server with more space and bandwidth and have enough money to begin the trainsition but, I want to have all the packages and tools ready so the transition goes as smoothly as possible

I'm familar with WHM and cPanel but, I don't think they really meet what I need.

I will be on a shared host (Reseller Account) and need something where I can create a /~username or username.domain.com accounts for certain users as well as email accounts username@domain.com

Subdomain creation (w/ FTP account associated with it)
Email address creation and management

Inetgration with
-- phpBB (currently running)
-- vBul (thinking about upgrading)


Also, a bonus would be a good gallery software (trying to making it as user friendly as possible to mitigate my support requirements) but, this isn't a must. I can always purchase a secondary solution for this.

Anyone know of a product that meets my needs?

Suggestions?

I think I can help with some of this.

If you want to create the /~username this can be done with WHM. You create an account, like you would if your hosting a new domain. The username of the account u create can be used as /~username.

For subdomains (username.domain.com you can add a subdomain in cpane, and an FTP user with same name and this will make the subdomain, and can be accessed with FTP.

For the email you just create a mail account using cpanel.

As far as I know there is nothing out there that can do this for you, so you will need to write your own script, or do it manualy.

For photogallery, I believe there is gallery addons for phpBB, if not there are plenty of free ones u can DL.

To sum up what you need.
YOu want an account that can manage the domain as you said.
have phpbb
as well as gallery right?

If so, WHM and cpanel can do all the job esp if you have fantastico installed. (Of course not something super fanciful)

If you need further help, pm me. I can teach you.

I would like to have it somewhat managed. So I wouldn't have to add each one individually to both WHM and then to cPanel.

I'm now considering chosing a VPS so I could possibly just roll my own scripts for this.

You could use Plesk 7 for what you need. It has both /~user and user.domain.com options, all these with FTP accounts.