Maybe take the question one step further.... Often Email, DNS management, and Webhosting get done on different servers and/or different operating systems. And integrated software package, on a per server bases, would not adequately solve management, without tripling the cost, under the above situation. Additionally, solving configuration automation, is have the battle, somehow it also has to integrate with billing. So which billing platforms it integrates with could also be a key buying factor.
Considering all the above... What product best handles the above for the lowest price? Any of them allow a multiple server prooduct? Microsoft did this with there Small business servers. Even though only one license for each product (SQL, Exchange, FileServer) was granted, each application could be co-located on any server, as long as each application was not running on more than one server. For example, currently our Mail, accounting, webserving runs on Windows, but DNS on Linux. We were looking for a good program to manage DNS zones and registrar renewal, beyond just manual bind file management, but don't so web hosting per say. (except limited capacity). My opinion is, a monthly fee really isn't all that bad for software, compared to paying higher per customer cost of a managed solution. If all the automated needs were solved, maybe very well worth it. But to replicate the cost, by three X, because one runs dedicated servers for individual applications, I think that would be a bit much. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] OT: Plesk > Travis Johnson wrote: > >> We have been running a few plesk hosting servers for the last 3-4 years. >> About three weeks ago they changed their pricing model from a one-time, >> up front purchase of their software to a monthly lease. We need to add >> another server, but are not interested in a lifetime monthly lease >> option. >> >> What is everyone else running for domain hosting boxes that allow the >> customers full-control of only their domain? > > I've got a test machine with "ISPConfig" (ispconfig.org). It looks to > cover much of the same ground as Plesk and cPanel, and is free to boot. > I haven't extensively played with it beyond making sure it works (in the > most basic sense), but it looks promising. > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.1 - Release Date: 3/26/2008 > 12:00 AM > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
