Server Control Panels...Which is Preferred?
I'm curious as to what control panel software everyone is using. Specify both your operating system & control panel used on your websites.
I use cPanel/WHM on my server. Sometimes I would rather just go and edit the config files myself, but I host a couple of my web dev client's websites, and they need an easy to use interface. Oh, and the operating system is CentOS.
greg posted this at 13:15 — 30th June 2008.
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As I am just learning this side of things, preference isn't something I could comment on.
Currently am using Cpanel/WHM
The control is for a 7 server cluster, 5 servers on centos 4.x (.1 I think), the other 2 servers are ubuntu
Apache 2.x on 6 servers, and one with lighttpd
PHP is 5.26 on all servers
There are 5 websites on the cluster, but there is hardly any RAM or CPU usage (other than the odd PEAK now and then), so reselling some of the resources is the current project.
decibel.places posted this at 14:09 — 30th June 2008.
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I like cPanel or Vdeck about evenly - although I have heard that Vdeck introduces performance problems, the UI is friendly enough
I dislike Plesk - server admin has to handle a lot of tasks - db admin is by domain not by user (phpmyadmin) - not able to archive or decompress on the file manager - strange permission problems pop up that aren't issues in cPanel
I recently had experience installing the same files in Plesk subdomains and cPanel subdomains - cPanel worked right away, but on Plesk server admin had to set conf files for some of them to work but others worked right away...
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