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    Question

    Hello,

    We have a hosting server that is running on the Solaris
    Sparc 7 platform. We want to be able to allow our users to
    set up their own pop3's. I cannot find any software that will allow this. All the decent control panels seem to only be written for Linux. We have already invested alot of $$ in our Sun machine and we want to use it. Does anyone know of any control panel type software that has this feature (and anything more would be a bonus).

    Thanks!

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    plesk

    plesk at plesk.com runs on solaris I believe, its a very good control panel
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    just for clarification...

    isn't solaris a linux flavour?


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    Nope

    Sloaris is SUN MIcrosystems own Unix Operating System

    very stable .. quite nice, until a few years ago it was the "must have" of ISP's and Hosts

    then Linux came
    Carlos Rego
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    Yep, go for plesk! It's very easy to setup and the only one I know of that runs on solaris.

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    Pleak version runs on Solaris Sparc 2.x platform. Sorry. I'd like to find one that runs on an 8.x version, so if you find anything, please post...
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    Damn, your right. Oh well, it's still compatible with more OS's then any other control panel I know.

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    sphera

    http://www.sphera.com


    I think sphera runs on Solaris 7.



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    confirmed


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    Re: confirmed

    Originally posted by sebados
    check at the bottom of:

    http://www.sphera.com/main/press/fullpress_101700.htm

    That's all nice and all, but how come I have never seen a demo of sphera's wonderful control panel. Do you know where I can try it??

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    Plesk no more...

    I should have mentioned this in my thread... I spent a long time on the phone with someone at Plesk and I am told that they are no longer supporting Solaris in any new versions. The guy told me that they did not sell one copy for Solaris in all of 2000. :-(

    Thanks though!!

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    Question Sphera

    I looked at their website. It always worries me when I have to contact a sales rep for pricing. Anyone know how expensive it is? It must be pretty expensive since they don't even hint at it.

    Anyone know of anything besides sphera?

    Thanks!

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    Re: Plesk no more...

    Originally posted by mree
    I should have mentioned this in my thread... I spent a long time on the phone with someone at Plesk and I am told that they are no longer supporting Solaris in any new versions. The guy told me that they did not sell one copy for Solaris in all of 2000. :-(

    Thanks though!!
    That's too bad. I just finished installing Plesk again here at home, in a grand total of 10 minutes!!! I really love how easy that panel is to install. But it's not just a control panel, it installs and configures apache, proftp, bind, php4, mysql, qmail and more.


    (getting back to topic) What about http://www.smarthostingtools.com Does it work on Solaris?

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    Re: Sphera

    Originally posted by mree
    I looked at their website. It always worries me when I have to contact a sales rep for pricing. Anyone know how expensive it is? It must be pretty expensive since they don't even hint at it.

    Anyone know of anything besides sphera?

    Thanks!
    I don't trust any company that doesn't disclose their prices along with a functioning demo. You have no idea what your looking at! If it's really that great, well, let's see it

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    Solaris..

    Tabernack,

    The Smart Hosting Controller does not run on Solaris. We are currently focusing on RedHat and FreeBSD first. Perhaps in 2-3 months we will release a Solaris version.

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    Re: Sphera

    Originally posted by mree
    I looked at their website. It always worries me when I have to contact a sales rep for pricing.
    Yeah, no kidding eh? That's never a *good* sign eh? Heh heh. I think plesk dumping solaris isn't good. Sun just came out with that $995 server and plesk would be great on that. Pity... maybe they don't know about the new server. They will soon if not
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    chicken

    Chicken I emailed them about that last night, were going to start carryiong that sun server and I emailed them to see if they can port plesk over to OS8 I will see what they say
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    So no one knows the pricing for Sphera's hosting director, AND no on has seen a demo of it??? So how do we know if it's any good or even affordable?

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    We've been on the scout for a control panel that will work on Solaris too since we saw the nice server that Sun are now doing.
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    well

    We run multiple Solaris boxes in work. This is a corporate enviroment so control panels aren't really a priority. Anyways we for legal reasons moved from APACHE to Netscape Iplanet Websrver- which has an adequate control panel as default.


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    Question porting...

    Are there any panels that provide source so we could try
    porting? It may not be that hard... but I hate to spend a ton on money on software and then have to port it :-)


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    Re: well

    Originally posted by DaveC#
    ...to Netscape Iplanet Websrver- which has an adequate control panel as default.
    Works on v8? -also URL pleeeeease.
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    Arrow Sphera pricing

    I called Sphera. It costs $400 per server with a minimum of 5 servers. They do not have a online demo. They will set up a 1 hr block of time to show you a demo via netmeeting. You cannot upgrade a current machine either, they say you need to setup a new machine and migrate all users to it.

    Also you HAVE to purchase support which is an extra 10%/mo.

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    IWAS

    I was considering looking into sphera as a potential canidate for a future product we would offer. but the fact that their sales form does nto work properly and they do not return calls and they dont even offer a online demo, make me not want to ever do business with them.
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    Exclamation cpanel on solaris

    Cpanel would have easily been ported to solaris (it could still be done in 2-4 days), but I simply can't justify shelling out for sun hardware without seeing a market for it.
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