****Re: I hate Plesk (Backup Hell)

[Craig White]

I am not in that business but it would seem to me...

virtualmin - companion to webmin fits the bill.

Virtualmin Pro - for those that gotta pay
http://www.virtualmin.com/

Virtualmin GPL - for those that won't pay
http://www.webmin.com/vdownload.html

I'm a believer in Jamie Cameron...I'm a long time user of Webmin

The guys is the most responsive developer I have ever seen.

Craig

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 21:30 -0700, JD Austin wrote:
> I don't think anyone does voluntarily :)
> In my case plesk came with my dedicated server.
> I keep waiting for the open source world to create something better or 
> at least equivalent to manage and allow clients to manage domains, 
> mysql, email, and DNS... PLEASE tell me I missed one! :)
> 
> Plesk is a bunch of open source apps glued together with their 
> proprietary code.
> They use php, mysql, bind, apache, tomcat, postgresql, qmail, and a 
> bunch of other things but configure it in a very non-intuitive manner 
> (kind of like Oracle does).
> They have a neat application vault.. too bad they don't keep it up to 
> date as several apps have known vulnerabilities sure to get your server 
> hacked faster than you can click go.
> The interface to users looks nice and works.
> Administration is fairly easy until you need to upgrade.
> I'm not sure Cpanel is any better though it is more popular.
> 
> Its just another case of a company placing their needs above the customer.
> Plesk does a pretty good job of locking you into their goofy architecture.
> 
> JD
> 
> Craig White wrote:
> > permit my ignorance and arrogance...why on earth would anyone want to go
> > through this?
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >   
> 
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