Control Panel

[Chris Kenward]

Hi Ed

This guy wants us to build and supply (we are a co-location hosting company
and ISP) a Redhat server exclusively for his own use as a web server. He's
asked to have a Control Panel installed. Not sure really what he's going to
use it for - perhaps he wants to do the "vISP" thing and host other
websites, giving his customers access to their sites via the CP?

If this were the scenario, then would cPanel do the trick?

Regards and thanks for the quick response!
Chris 

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: 10 April 2005 19:25
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Control Panel

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 06:55:30PM +0100, Chris Kenward wrote:
> I've been installing Redhat ES now for a while and am getting more 
> confident about getting new servers up and running, however one of our 
> customers has just asked for a server running Redhat but wants to have 
> Control Panel access to the box.
> 
> Completely floored - how on earth does one install this? Any ideas
welcome!!

It depends on what he really means.  There's webmin as somebody else pointed
out (http://www.webmin.com) but there's also cPanel which many ISPs use
(http://www.cpanel.net).  That's a totally different beast and the
installation is non-trivial and may conflict with your other proposed uses
of the box.  It is nice in an ISP environment (at least from an end user's
point of view - I haven't managed a system with it on there).

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