Re: [cobalt-users] CP Plus - Has any one used it? - Safe?

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 12 April 2004 02:12 am, cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Thanks for your comments and can I take this opportunity to thank
> you for your participation in this list, I've used your
> tips / answers / comments from many of your submissions over the
> past few years.

You're welcome <blush>.

> I'm in the process of evaluating CPPlus at the moment.
>
> This is a bit of an open question, but are there any other
> packages similar to CPPlus you would recommend looking at?

I did get an email back from my friend yesterday, but it turned out to 
be one of those "disaster" days, and I didn't get a chance to forward 
it to the list.

He wrote, comparing it to HSphere, that HSphere "has billing features & 
reseller accounts, whereas CP+ is designed for single dedicated 
servers."

Based on that (I haven't had time yet to ask him for clarification) it 
appears that CP Plus doesn't have a reseller panel.  While that's fine 
for many Sun Cobalt users, who've never had a reseller control panel, 
it's a nice feature to have; even if you don't have resellers you can 
use it to group accounts for one reason or another.

I've said it here before, so I won't go into it in detail, but I was a 
Plesk Gold Partner for a while; then decided that Plesk wasn't going in 
the direction I wanted to go in (they require too much control over 
your server; there's very little you can add/control by yourself 
outside of the interface), and I'm now using, recommending, and 
offering third-party support, for DirectAdmin 
(http://www.directadmin.com/).  One of our DirectAdmin products is a 
free (as in beer, as in speech) spamblocking tool that's quite a bit 
more configurable than anything you can do with Sendmail on a RaQ.

> Most admin tasks I can do from the command line, but need a product
> that will help speedup the every day tasks and give clients basic
> access to their site.

If you like to do admin tasks from the command line you should really 
look at DirectAdmin; it has the least "dependency" on doing things 
through the interface of of any control panel I've ever experienced.  I 
can do just about anything from the command line without running into 
problems with the control panel, yet the control panel gives an 
unprecedented degree of flexibility and control to the site-owner, 
including the ability to add simple cron-jobs him/herself, and to make 
certain changes to her/his httpd configuration.  It also sets up DNS 
automatically, but allows you to make changes directly to DNS zone 
files without breaking the DNS system or rewriting over them.

It has a great reseller level, and a great site-owner level, but lacks a 
site-user (mailbox-owner) level; all the site-user can do for 
him/herself is change passwords.

Jeff
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