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Control Panels for Web Hosting?
jstrzalko asks: "I recently started a web design and hosting company and am looking at all of the control panel solutions to offer my clients. I consider myself quite adept at Linux so server administration is not the issue. I just want to be able to allow my clients to easily add/remove email addresses and domains, give them stats, manage their databases etc. Has anyone had good experience with any of them? I am currently running Fedora Core3 (test3) on my server, if that helps anyone."
Plesk seemed to have several issues last time I dealt with it, including the following:
Very tempermental to updates under one of the supported OS's (Redhat), to the point where upgrading some packages would break it.
Win32 releases would be sooner then Linux/Unix releases.
Lack of clear, clean update tools to move from one version to another, or from one platform (Plesk 5 on unix) to another (Plesk 6 on windows).
Never took advantage of native package formats under Redhat, which made it possible to clobber plesk quite easily. Sure, plesk used a unique directory for its files, but if a native daemon grabbed a port first, it would prevent Plesk from working.
And my personal pet peeve is that it never added its man paths for its packages to the system.
Disclaimer: The above is my opinion of Plesk. YMMV, and the most recent versions of Plesk (6 & 7) may be quite nice now. I wouldn't know, since Plesk 5 led me to avoid using their system.
Speaking solely as a customer, GoDaddy's admin system is awesome.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
They used to be good
This probably has a lot to do with the fact that Plesk got bought by Sw-Soft and they outsourced all development _and_ support to Russia. Plesk always had a team in Russia, but had a good balance between folks in the US and Russia. Now as I understand it most anyone in the US has been laid off.
I personally think webmin is good, the only thing it lacks is a decent skin.