thanks a lot xander! i'll check these resources. best, --sarah
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Xander Solis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > For your groupware question, I have tried phpgroupware in the past.. You'd > might want to check this project for your needs. > > While for the Linux hardening inquiry, one reference I would recommend is > the cisecurity.org benchmarks that has recommendations. These documents have > configuration options and best practices on how to secure and harden various > Linux distributions. They do also have documents for other operating systems > as well. > > http://www.cisecurity.org/benchmarks.html > > Hope this helps, > > Xander R. Solis > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:11 PM, sarah escandor-tomas > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> My org (a non-profit) and a colleague from another organisation are in >> the process of upgrading servers. We hope to seek your advice... >> >> We are starting a process of upgrading servers. >> >> One of them is a web hosting server (Apache, PHP, MYSQL) which also has >> e-mail services (POP3, IMAP, SMTP, etc), DNS and icecast running on it. >> With these change we will improve the performance of our services and we >> also want to get rid of VHCS, which is a GPL - Control Panel Software. >> VHCS is no longer being updated. Months ago the development team split. >> And the VHCS project stayed drifting. Now VHCS has become ispCP, and >> even though there is a way to upgrade to ispCP, we would like to try >> another Control Panel Software (GPL) instead. And we are hoping some one >> from you guys would like to recommend software of this kind, that works >> with the schemma: Administrators-Resellers-Users, with each user in >> control of his/her services FTP, email, subdomains, databases, support >> tickets, traffic control etc. >> >> We have seen syscp.org, gnupanel.org and others, but who knows which is >> best? >> >> The second web server is working for a couple organizations (shared >> server), in this one we would like to offer some integrated options of >> groupware (under GPL, also) like calendar, address book, collaborative >> edition of documents, etc. Here we found ebox-platform.com wich looks >> good. Do you know another options?. >> >> And one last thing is: we are in need of a good hardening/securing >> methodology, if you know some online resources or maybe a title of a >> book we can buy, any of that will be very useful. >> >> Well, thank's in advance. >> >> Cheers, >> Sarah >> >> -- >> >> >> Sarah Escandor-Tomas >> working from Manila, Philippines >> Systems Administration Coordinator / Technical Information Coordinator >> Association for Progressive Communications (APC) >> APC Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) >> Websites: www.apc.org; www.apcwomen.org; www.genderit.org; >> www.takebackthetech.net >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Sarah Escandor-Tomas working from Manila, Philippines Systems Administration Coordinator / Technical Information Coordinator Association for Progressive Communications (APC) APC Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) Websites: www.apc.org; www.apcwomen.org; www.genderit.org; www.takebackthetech.net _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
