-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm curious...what kind of work have you done with Plesk and vserver?
ahp > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Sutton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 05:24 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [vserver] RedHat HOW-TOs > > Hi Rod, > > I couldn't find any reference to ths minimal install on the web, but maybe > I'm just being thick ;P If you could give me a link then I will be happy > to > try it out and report on my experiences. > > I did this as an exercise since several of my customers have shown > interest > in me setting up VServers for them. I am currently expanding on that how- > to > in order to create a 'pick and mix' system for creating VServers for web > hosting. The base install for the VServer therefore contains the very > basic > stuff needed to get a VServer up and running without having to use > 'rpm --force --nodeps' ;) to build it, plus a few other bits and pieces > that satisfy dependencies for other useful applications. I have already > achieved this, but plan to optimise it over time. > > Next I took then main application requirements for a web hosting system > (ie > Sendmail/Procmail, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Postrgres and compiler subsystem > etc > and figured out which RPM's were required to get these up and running and > what post install stuff needed to be done... I also worked out what the > dependencies were for up2date to work properly, and currently have it > running happily within the VServer environment. > > Next I am planning to improve on the up2date implementation so that it > runs > once on a reference VServer, and from which multiple VServers can be > updated > without having to have a RHN entitlement for each VServer. Finally I > would > like to tie it all together with some scripts to automate the build system > for any RedHat version... > > I will keep expanding on my HOW-TOs, and plan to get all of this up on my > site as time goes on... > > On the other side I am investigating various control panels (both > commercial > and free) with a view to having a fairly functional (RedHat-centric) web > hosting system together in the next month or so. My programming skills > are > fairly non-existant but I am capable of knocking together the odd bash > script here and there to automate stuff ;) > > I know not everyone uses VServer for web hosting purposes, but would be > interested to hear what other peoples experiences have been in getting > various control panels to work. So far I have managed to get Plesk and > CPanel pretty much working, and plan to have a closer look at Linuxconf, > even though it doesn't seem to be designed for web hosting (no > reseller/end > user modules as far as I can tell...). > > Is anyone else working on control panel functionality? > > Regards, > > Mark. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:54 PM > Subject: Re: [vserver] RedHat HOW-TOs > > > > Very interesting. How does this minimal install compare to the > > Linuxconf/newvserver minimal RDHL 7.3 install? > > > > > > Rod > > -- > > "Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for..." > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBPfigDd0rskLi2W+SEQK3LQCgg5F6S676gcUffnOPAPfJ09qZEKkAnRlB UxxB3e2vIWzpc6Vv8nJPen8G =0npK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
