> I'm strongly considering dumping Plesk. It seems designed for people > who want to offer "public" > hosting services
Exactly, it's built so you can just hand off a login to the customer and let them manage everything themselves, perfect if you are reselling hosting. If your clients don't access the server though, there's little reason to use it. It does save some time on some things, like automatically setting up DNS entries, creating FTP accounts, etc. But I'm willing to put up with a little extra hassle to not have it on there messing up the server and getting in my way. And if you've ever dealt with a Plesk update gone awry, you'd definitely feel the same way! > I'm having trouble now getting a connection to my MySQL instance on my > new VPS... either remotely from > my workstation or even with Navicat installed on the new VPS. Yes, it basically wipes out the root account and doesn't allow remote connections at all. It's possible to go on the server and use the command line to get around this and add a new root account...but that's really a pain to do if you are not familiar with doing command line functions on MySQL. It also drove me nuts that if you create MySQL databases through Plesk, it insists on each one having its own login. Suffice to say, I'd need a *really* good reason to let Plesk anywhere near one of my servers again. ;-) > I was told that to work on the server directly while having Plesk > running at the same time could > cause some conflicts. Not so much conflicts (although that certainly might be a possibility)...just that you can have stuff that you've added/created on the server that doesn't show up in Plesk so can add to some confusion. --- Mary Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:309302 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
