I am going to start a small hosting company and I need a dedicated server. I had my eyes on http://www.hostrack.com. Has anyone had experience with them? I have not been able to find reviews about them but I have found a few reviews about amhosting, their owners. I also need a user-friendly control panel for the end user. I have checked out a few such as Plesk, but it does not have all of the features I would like it to have, such as having the ability for the end-user to create FTP accounts, and allow reselling. I am looking for something inexpensive, under $500. Thank you!

This may be of some help to you, I'll tell you know that this free control package requires a seperate IP for every virtaul domain you have!!



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Lee.

You can get plesk for $550 or some dedicated servers companies are including it free of charge with their servers.

Cpanel/WebHost Manager offers a great deal of features, and a lot of hosts (even non-VDI-based hosts) include it now on their dedicated servers at no additional cost. I would definately recommend it over Plesk. Smart Hosting Tools has their Smart Hosting Controller as well, which looks promising, but that'll run you $850 with the automated billing module.

Hope this helps.

The problem with most of these control panels is that they have too many features. Some of them also require a seperate IP address per V/Server or host. Then you have the ones that require a skilled programmer to install, which kinda defeats the object as I'd probably design it myself if I was :)

Webmin is the best I've seen so far, it's free and it comes with plugins which can be removed and added at will without much effort.

If anyone could develop a CLIENT based version of WebMin then they'd be in with a good chance of getting my business for one. So long as it didn't require any server modifications beyond your average httpd.conf file type editing, or required a new ip address per host/server etc... Oh yes and they'd have to have each part of the panel as seperate optional plugins, which could be charged for on a per plugin basis (say £15 - £20 per plugin?) - this would make it easy for companies like my own who only wanted the add email/aliases and change passwords options.

Just an idea.

Lee.

The great thing about smart hosting tools control panel is it will allow you to create several packages on the server. This means I would be able to give someone an account as simple as one meg. of space and no cgi support, one email account, etc. but I can also give them something advanced with more features. I like the automatic billing feature. It will really help me out. Thanks for your input.