[CoLoCo] ubuntu server

[Kevin Fries]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 11:27 -0600, Alex Comer wrote:
> Can you recommend an OSS tool for ubuntu servers similar to "cpanel"
> or "plesk" - allowing web based administration? I had thought that
> webmin is the best OSS offering in this area but then I heard from
> several sources that webmin is no longer supported in Debian and
> Ubuntu, that it is not compatible with the way that Ubuntu packages
> handle configuration files, and that it is likely to cause unexpected
> issues with my system. Has anyone used ispconfig on ubuntu? Any
> problems to report?

I am not sure what exactly you are trying to get done.  For user
administration issues, I like GOsa.

But, I still use webmin for services.  The ISP that I use also uses
plesk and webmin (OCS Solutions) options.  They run Ubuntu.  They try to
get all their users using Plesk unless they need something like Mongrel,
where they are forced to use Webmin.  Unfortunately I run a mongrel
server, so its webmin for me...  In a ISP like situation, these two make
sense.

However, like I said, if I am setting up a server and want to give ONLY
user admin duties to the end client... I use GOsa and place accounts in
LDAP.

Hope this was helpful

-- 
Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.