Re: C-Panel
Hello Russ, Sometime ago, you told that you are developing a module to create CF DSN using WSP. Are you still working on that? I raised this in a different thread but nobody replied http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:64703 :( Any ideas? Fyi websitepanel is more active now, 2.0 released this year and 2.1 currently in beta, supports Windows 2012. Do not use its ecommerce system though it is awful, but the rest of it works really well. We use it for all our Windows hosting and I also use it for cfmldeveloper.com Russ Michaels www.michaels.me.uk On 10 Jul 2013 15:21, Byron Mann byronos...@gmail.com wrote: ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356170 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: C-Panel
that actually turned instead into CFMANAGER, a per site admin (like Railo) so users can manage their own settings. still working on it currently and no idea when it will be finished i'm afraid as I have barely any time for coding. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Meghna Chopra mymailsonl...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Russ, Sometime ago, you told that you are developing a module to create CF DSN using WSP. Are you still working on that? I raised this in a different thread but nobody replied http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:64703 :( Any ideas? Fyi websitepanel is more active now, 2.0 released this year and 2.1 currently in beta, supports Windows 2012. Do not use its ecommerce system though it is awful, but the rest of it works really well. We use it for all our Windows hosting and I also use it for cfmldeveloper.com Russ Michaels www.michaels.me.uk On 10 Jul 2013 15:21, Byron Mann byronos...@gmail.com wrote: ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356182 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
C-Panel
Hi Folks. I run a hosting company and need an interface like C-Panel. I was wondering if there were and snippets of code out there that have an interface to manage Windows accounts since my servers are windows based. Since I'm developing this myself I may be asking questions here, but I'm willing to share my work with you folks here in the community. Kind Regards, Rick Sanders T: 902-401-7689 W: www.webenergy.cahttp://www.webenergy.ca/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356152 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: C-Panel
take a look at www.websitepanel.net On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Rick Sanders r...@webenergy.ca wrote: Hi Folks. I run a hosting company and need an interface like C-Panel. I was wondering if there were and snippets of code out there that have an interface to manage Windows accounts since my servers are windows based. Since I'm developing this myself I may be asking questions here, but I'm willing to share my work with you folks here in the community. Kind Regards, Rick Sanders T: 902-401-7689 W: www.webenergy.cahttp://www.webenergy.ca/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356156 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: C-Panel
Having supported home-grown provisioning code for several years my suggestion would be to use something off the shelf. We implemented Parallels Automation and Billing last year and have drastically reduced our costs across the board, development, support, operations. We now only have one additional developer supporting our legacy applications, instead of 5, and most of his time is spent on new work. Next question is do you need billing and automation or just automation? WHMCS is a nice all in one solution a lot of smaller hosts seem to use for both provisioning and billing. It integrates with various control panels on the servers. Pretty inexpensive, limited a bit on services you can offer however. Windows and Linux should you decide to offer Linux in the future. WebSitePanel, OpenSource, .NET, backed by Microsoft. Windows Only, might be a bit difficult to implement Linux. Simple billing. Seems like it is not a very active project however. We started using this a while back just for provisioning and had to customize things quite a bit for how we wanted to do things. So a bit restrictive. We no longer use it. Parallels has taken Plesk to the next level and can now centrally manage Plesk servers: http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk-automation/, we are actually going to start offering this to our resellers. Windows and Linux. Provisioning only. Just need the Plesk management node actually, can connect to existing Plesk servers and can add new servers without Plesk. There is just an agent that runs on the remote machines. No Billing, Parallels has a new billing thing coming out next year specifically for this. Parallels Automation Billing, this is what we use for provisioning. This is their most comprehensive product and will provision just about everything a web host would probably need. You can just get the Automation component without billing. Expensive and does require Parallels implementation (and I would suggest training) as part of the purchase. Can also do fully branded resellers. If you stick with an in-house solution, use powershell scripts. I've found it to be the most flexible and reliable thing out there, plus there are a ton of scripts floating out there already. Windows hosting is shrinking with the advent of more good Control Panels that make Linux a no brainer. Not sure what your business model is, but I would consider this a future possibility. webhostingtalk.com is an excellent resource for hosters as well, if you aren't part of that community already. Byron Mann Lead Engineer Architect HostMySite.com On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Rick Sanders r...@webenergy.ca wrote: Hi Folks. I run a hosting company and need an interface like C-Panel. I was wondering if there were and snippets of code out there that have an interface to manage Windows accounts since my servers are windows based. Since I'm developing this myself I may be asking questions here, but I'm willing to share my work with you folks here in the community. Kind Regards, Rick Sanders T: 902-401-7689 W: www.webenergy.cahttp://www.webenergy.ca/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356157 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: C-Panel
Hi again Brian, I agree with you about windows. However, I haven't had enough experience with Linux servers in order to set one up for web hosting. I've been working with windows servers since NT 3.5. Windows can host Wordpress, PhP and any other web technology today. Until I absolutely have to set up a Linux server, my limited time is best served in other areas. WebSitePanel looks to be a good solution for what I need. I don't need billing, only file management. Thanks for the info on webhostingtalk.com too! Kind Regards, Rick Sanders T: 902-401-7689 W: www.webenergy.ca -Original Message- From: Byron Mann [mailto:byronos...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 11:22 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: C-Panel Having supported home-grown provisioning code for several years my suggestion would be to use something off the shelf. We implemented Parallels Automation and Billing last year and have drastically reduced our costs across the board, development, support, operations. We now only have one additional developer supporting our legacy applications, instead of 5, and most of his time is spent on new work. Next question is do you need billing and automation or just automation? WHMCS is a nice all in one solution a lot of smaller hosts seem to use for both provisioning and billing. It integrates with various control panels on the servers. Pretty inexpensive, limited a bit on services you can offer however. Windows and Linux should you decide to offer Linux in the future. WebSitePanel, OpenSource, .NET, backed by Microsoft. Windows Only, might be a bit difficult to implement Linux. Simple billing. Seems like it is not a very active project however. We started using this a while back just for provisioning and had to customize things quite a bit for how we wanted to do things. So a bit restrictive. We no longer use it. Parallels has taken Plesk to the next level and can now centrally manage Plesk servers: http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk-automation/, we are actually going to start offering this to our resellers. Windows and Linux. Provisioning only. Just need the Plesk management node actually, can connect to existing Plesk servers and can add new servers without Plesk. There is just an agent that runs on the remote machines. No Billing, Parallels has a new billing thing coming out next year specifically for this. Parallels Automation Billing, this is what we use for provisioning. This is their most comprehensive product and will provision just about everything a web host would probably need. You can just get the Automation component without billing. Expensive and does require Parallels implementation (and I would suggest training) as part of the purchase. Can also do fully branded resellers. If you stick with an in-house solution, use powershell scripts. I've found it to be the most flexible and reliable thing out there, plus there are a ton of scripts floating out there already. Windows hosting is shrinking with the advent of more good Control Panels that make Linux a no brainer. Not sure what your business model is, but I would consider this a future possibility. webhostingtalk.com is an excellent resource for hosters as well, if you aren't part of that community already. Byron Mann Lead Engineer Architect HostMySite.com On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Rick Sanders r...@webenergy.ca wrote: Hi Folks. I run a hosting company and need an interface like C-Panel. I was wondering if there were and snippets of code out there that have an interface to manage Windows accounts since my servers are windows based. Since I'm developing this myself I may be asking questions here, but I'm willing to share my work with you folks here in the community. Kind Regards, Rick Sanders T: 902-401-7689 W: www.webenergy.cahttp://www.webenergy.ca/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356158 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: C-Panel
Fyi websitepanel is more active now, 2.0 released this year and 2.1 currently in beta, supports Windows 2012. Do not use its ecommerce system though it is awful, but the rest of it works really well. We use it for all our Windows hosting and I also use it for cfmldeveloper.com Russ Michaels www.michaels.me.uk On 10 Jul 2013 15:21, Byron Mann byronos...@gmail.com wrote: Having supported home-grown provisioning code for several years my suggestion would be to use something off the shelf. We implemented Parallels Automation and Billing last year and have drastically reduced our costs across the board, development, support, operations. We now only have one additional developer supporting our legacy applications, instead of 5, and most of his time is spent on new work. Next question is do you need billing and automation or just automation? WHMCS is a nice all in one solution a lot of smaller hosts seem to use for both provisioning and billing. It integrates with various control panels on the servers. Pretty inexpensive, limited a bit on services you can offer however. Windows and Linux should you decide to offer Linux in the future. WebSitePanel, OpenSource, .NET, backed by Microsoft. Windows Only, might be a bit difficult to implement Linux. Simple billing. Seems like it is not a very active project however. We started using this a while back just for provisioning and had to customize things quite a bit for how we wanted to do things. So a bit restrictive. We no longer use it. Parallels has taken Plesk to the next level and can now centrally manage Plesk servers: http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk-automation/, we are actually going to start offering this to our resellers. Windows and Linux. Provisioning only. Just need the Plesk management node actually, can connect to existing Plesk servers and can add new servers without Plesk. There is just an agent that runs on the remote machines. No Billing, Parallels has a new billing thing coming out next year specifically for this. Parallels Automation Billing, this is what we use for provisioning. This is their most comprehensive product and will provision just about everything a web host would probably need. You can just get the Automation component without billing. Expensive and does require Parallels implementation (and I would suggest training) as part of the purchase. Can also do fully branded resellers. If you stick with an in-house solution, use powershell scripts. I've found it to be the most flexible and reliable thing out there, plus there are a ton of scripts floating out there already. Windows hosting is shrinking with the advent of more good Control Panels that make Linux a no brainer. Not sure what your business model is, but I would consider this a future possibility. webhostingtalk.com is an excellent resource for hosters as well, if you aren't part of that community already. Byron Mann Lead Engineer Architect HostMySite.com On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Rick Sanders r...@webenergy.ca wrote: Hi Folks. I run a hosting company and need an interface like C-Panel. I was wondering if there were and snippets of code out there that have an interface to manage Windows accounts since my servers are windows based. Since I'm developing this myself I may be asking questions here, but I'm willing to share my work with you folks here in the community. Kind Regards, Rick Sanders T: 902-401-7689 W: www.webenergy.cahttp://www.webenergy.ca/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356159 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: C-Panel
Thanks for your input Ross. I'm installing it now on a test machine then I will implement it on our live server. Kind Regards, Rick Sanders T: 902-401-7689 W: www.webenergy.ca -Original Message- From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 12:14 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: C-Panel Fyi websitepanel is more active now, 2.0 released this year and 2.1 currently in beta, supports Windows 2012. Do not use its ecommerce system though it is awful, but the rest of it works really well. We use it for all our Windows hosting and I also use it for cfmldeveloper.com Russ Michaels www.michaels.me.uk On 10 Jul 2013 15:21, Byron Mann byronos...@gmail.com wrote: Having supported home-grown provisioning code for several years my suggestion would be to use something off the shelf. We implemented Parallels Automation and Billing last year and have drastically reduced our costs across the board, development, support, operations. We now only have one additional developer supporting our legacy applications, instead of 5, and most of his time is spent on new work. Next question is do you need billing and automation or just automation? WHMCS is a nice all in one solution a lot of smaller hosts seem to use for both provisioning and billing. It integrates with various control panels on the servers. Pretty inexpensive, limited a bit on services you can offer however. Windows and Linux should you decide to offer Linux in the future. WebSitePanel, OpenSource, .NET, backed by Microsoft. Windows Only, might be a bit difficult to implement Linux. Simple billing. Seems like it is not a very active project however. We started using this a while back just for provisioning and had to customize things quite a bit for how we wanted to do things. So a bit restrictive. We no longer use it. Parallels has taken Plesk to the next level and can now centrally manage Plesk servers: http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk-automation/, we are actually going to start offering this to our resellers. Windows and Linux. Provisioning only. Just need the Plesk management node actually, can connect to existing Plesk servers and can add new servers without Plesk. There is just an agent that runs on the remote machines. No Billing, Parallels has a new billing thing coming out next year specifically for this. Parallels Automation Billing, this is what we use for provisioning. This is their most comprehensive product and will provision just about everything a web host would probably need. You can just get the Automation component without billing. Expensive and does require Parallels implementation (and I would suggest training) as part of the purchase. Can also do fully branded resellers. If you stick with an in-house solution, use powershell scripts. I've found it to be the most flexible and reliable thing out there, plus there are a ton of scripts floating out there already. Windows hosting is shrinking with the advent of more good Control Panels that make Linux a no brainer. Not sure what your business model is, but I would consider this a future possibility. webhostingtalk.com is an excellent resource for hosters as well, if you aren't part of that community already. Byron Mann Lead Engineer Architect HostMySite.com On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Rick Sanders r...@webenergy.ca wrote: Hi Folks. I run a hosting company and need an interface like C-Panel. I was wondering if there were and snippets of code out there that have an interface to manage Windows accounts since my servers are windows based. Since I'm developing this myself I may be asking questions here, but I'm willing to share my work with you folks here in the community. Kind Regards, Rick Sanders T: 902-401-7689 W: www.webenergy.cahttp://www.webenergy.ca/ ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356160 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
