[axxs-sysadmin] Some improvements in the Open Source control panels

[Cameron Gregg]

aketus wrote:
> A small addition:
> 
> WebCP written in PHP :/
> 
> VHCP written PHP, Perl and C. Php GUI, the daemon is in C, the engine is 
> in Perl
> 
> 

webcp does look nice, the feature list looks ok too. The demo login 
doesnt seem to have much enabled. best test this out.

vhcs, havent looked at it, but sounds a big dangerous with all those 
different components, though that could make it strong...

...what i liked about webmin is that it didnt seem to fuck with the 
current debian setup, well not too much in the testing it did. it just 
read in the configs and wrote back to them. doesn't appear to be a mysql 
database backing the whole thing like plesk. i like minimal yet useful 
stuff like that. eg you can still create an apache vhost and a bind 
entries by hand and webmin just leaves them alone pretty much. I think 
this is how it works, havent tested it a whole heap.

not sure why this is offlist, so I've forwarded it to the list.

Cam



> Quoting aketus 
> 
>> Cam and I have tested out quite a few alternatives to PLesk that are
>> open source, and frankly none of them have really cut it. The closest
>> was probably a combination of Webmin and Virtualmin, but not very
>> intuitive, especially for non-geeks that want to manage their site.
>>
>> I've found a few more this morning, and  these look fucking impressive
>>
>> http://www.web-cp.net/
>> Here is a demo for the 'stable' release
>> http://gyrbo.madoka.be/web-cp/
>> Username: admin Password: admin. Just click 'Home' in the top right
>> corner after logging in.
>>
>>
>> http://www.vhcs.net/
>>
>> Have a look at the demos (per user role) here
>> http://www.vhcs.net/new/modules/wfchannel/index.php?pagenum=7
>>
>>
>> These are what I have been looking for. Functional, 'click of a
>> button' system that has enough shiny shit to be not too much of a
>> learning curve from Plesk and attractive to non-geeks. VHCS appears to
>> be especially easy in setting up subdomains, although one must specify
>> a 'mount point' (which actually looks to me like a clever feature)
>>
>> Both have easy integration with phpMyadmin.
>>