does anyone have an opinion on using FreeVSD as a foundation for developing a complete hosting automation solution?

thanks for the input!

Hi, personally I do not at this time. The simple reason that it lacks a few features of a VSD. Mainly the access level permitted. Unlike the other ones there isent a real fake root user created, just whats called an admin user. So you do not have the full access that you would with a real VSD. As for a automation. I would focus on making it in shell and perl scripts. I do not have them anymore, but I made a few very simple things. One was a setup process, Just a shell script asking me questions like ip, domain, etc for it. Then I had a hacked section of the cp for freevsd that displays bandwidth. then I had the program that watched the bandwith(just IP chains with clever programming). If you want to automate somthing, automate the install and write detailed directions :) That thing took me forever to learn and understand.

Is there any open source code out there that you would suggest using as a starter for developing a complete web hosting and server management solution?

http://www.webmin.com

This may help

Greg Moore

hosting automation solution
Sounds like ensim :uhh: