 | View Full Version : Good control panels for linux dedicated servers lightone 12-24-2001, 11:38 AM We are a dedicated server company and I have been giving our users webmin as a control panel. Doesn't have enough options. What is a good inexpensive control panel to use for dedicated server customers? eva2000 12-24-2001, 11:42 AM www.cpanel.net www.plesk.com www.ensim.com gcjeepster 12-24-2001, 12:21 PM Originally posted by eva2000 www.ensim.com [/B] Anyone work with Ensim? Anyone know ballpark figures of the Ensim? We reviewing other Control Panels for our dedicated server offereings as well. Happy Holidays to all! Varun Shoor 12-24-2001, 02:08 PM Originally posted by gcjeepster Anyone work with Ensim? Anyone know ballpark figures of the Ensim? We reviewing other Control Panels for our dedicated server offereings as well. Happy Holidays to all! Ensim Webpliance is for like $999 (not sure) Their server exchange is very expensive (around $2k/mo?) Why not check their site?? ho247 12-24-2001, 02:11 PM I don't really understand why people would pay for Plesk or any other control panel, I've used Webmin for the past two years and it's just been great and still is! It's free too... so why??? Alan Varun Shoor 12-24-2001, 02:17 PM Originally posted by ho247 I don't really understand why people would pay for Plesk or any other control panel, I've used Webmin for the past two years and it's just been great and still is! It's free too... so why??? Alan Thats a simple question Webmin doesnt have a client frontend Webmin doesnt handle billing Webmin is mainly targetting towards server admins Webmin does not allow one to manage clients/domains There are a LOT of other reasons, but only those come up to my mind at 12 midnight. ZzzZZz ho247 12-24-2001, 02:58 PM LOL, certainly good points, but I guess I meant for server administration only and not for running a web hosting company. MotleyFool 12-25-2001, 11:29 AM Webmin for server admin and webcp for resellers and end clients is a free choice... Also there is a GPL software called kandalaya.com where they claim that everything is available for free If you are okay with giving email control panel to endusers you can also look at qpopmail + vpopmail +vpopadmin But I have no first hand experience with this.. Cheers Balaji MotleyFool 12-27-2001, 06:52 AM Hey, vHost freeVSD & ISPMan are also free control panels But the more I study control panels [and the more I use WHM and CPanel *L*] the more I am coming to the conclusion that command line usage is the BEST. My dream server would be FreeBSD,djbdns,qmail,vpopmail,qmailadmin and sqwebmail as a mail server [add qpopper] Control Panels are like artificial intelligence and not good enough substitutes for natural stupidity! Cheers Balaji NORRITT 12-27-2001, 08:57 AM webCP (http://webcp.can-host.com) --> - Reseller Control Panel - File manager - DNS managment - Statistics - Auto install of some free scripts (coming in 0.5 I think) - Choose to give PHP, ASP, CGI-BIN, MySQL ... to user - SSL Support - Billing / Support system - Client CP Template ......... just check out the webCP (http://webcp.can-host.com) site Pillhead 12-27-2001, 09:17 AM Anyone got any experience with that FreeVSD ? I am very interested in this and would like to see it working, or know someone who has used it, and could give there views on this product. ckpeter 12-27-2001, 12:09 PM Don't forget h-sphere from psoft.net Peter MotleyFool 12-27-2001, 02:39 PM Pillhead, Diginode has got a freeVSD server installed and they are offering it for a trial period also You can check in the offers forum in wht, http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29695 by Rosehosting and also another down the line by diginode Good luck Balaji |