> > Our very own Raj Mathur's Vishwakarma is a strong OSS control panel with > > a good LDAP based authentication and cascaded design. > It seems that the development on Vishwakarma has stopped :( There seems to > be no change log for some time now.. Actually it has less bells and whistles so less maintenance and it actually works with Redhat 8 as well with only a few minor setup glitches in its present form. It is possible to maintain a RPM based distribution much more easily with Vishwakarma than proprietary control panels as each of them actually maintains their own custom rpm distributions. This creates a problem when you want to customize you are at the risk of breaking it or losing warranty.
Some more options to try out which I haven't tried. http://www.chaogic.com/vhost/ http://webcp.can-host.com/ http://www.acctmgr.com/ http://www.directphp.com/index.php http://www.kabelsau.de/programme/ http://www.ic-isp.com http://ispbs.hostplus.net/ http://www.maz.org/vh/ http://www.vhffs.org/ http://ispman.sourceforge.net/ http://isfree.terrabox.com/ http://www.prongs.org/virtfs/ > How is cpanel in this regard? I am > thinking about getting cpanel, but their price is quite steep. $599 for 1 > year is quite high :( I would never recommend a package where you are at the mercy of the service provider to provide the patches/updates for security hotfixes. > I have a server hosted at superb, and those guys were recomending a > reinstall for a problem that was solved by giving a proper init command on > the linux boot prompt. Their support is real bad. They charge extra for > setting up a system properly, and then set it up with a kernel that locks up > with moderate load! Please if you are considering a dedicated Linux server > don't go to superb they are big time rip offs :( I would recommend go for a Web-hosting company with an NOC in India and a NOC in US and co-located at a big Data Center like Verio or Exodus.And actually has a physical presence of their own in the data center. A good Data Center should provide you 1) Multiple Backbones of their own. esp. true of Verio/Exodus. 2) Remote KVM access or free reboots/console level troubleshooting, you can see the display of your server booting up ( I think verio does provide that ) 3) 100% network uptimes(When our ISPs have a network uptime of 90 % or less which in effect means 3 days in a month ) What you should expect from the Web-hosting company is application of patches including kernel upgrades and any server related troubleshooting including console level without additional expenses what is called As far as the traffic is concerned most of the Indian ISPs are connected to one or more backbone providers like NewSkies ( C-band VSAT I think ) or VSNL. And VSNL/Newskies do what they are asked to provide to ISPs merely provide a transit to the Internet Backbones. I will not be surprised if the traffic from any ISP is first routed to the backbone through VSNL(or newskies etc) and then back to VSNL DataCenters sigh!!. The proposed NIXI (see india-gii mailing list archives for discussion on that) has made some headway. Tarun Dua _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
