Hi all
ScoutNet Switzerland (www.scout.ch) is an association offering hosted services to the swiss guide and scout movement and other scouting groups in switzerland.
We have the urgent need to renew our hosting platform. We did try to develop an own environement exactly fitting our needs for the last maybe three years, but we had to conclude this is not possible on voluntary base.
Now we want to evaluate which available solutions might cover most of our needs. So SWINOG probably is not the badest place to ask what others use and what the your experiences with the solution your use are.
Scale: - About 200 Groups having a website with an own domain. Mostly quite simple things but also some Typo3, Gallery and other resource consuming applications. - Up to 10'000 Email Accounts.
Main Needs: - DNS - LAMP Server, preferably running Debian or a derivate. - Mailserver supporting IMAP + SMTP Authentication + Webmail + Listserver like Mailman. - Customer can do most himself. As less as possible support need. - Setting up news Customer without need of root access to the server (preferably via a admin web gui)
Would-Be-Nice-To-Haves: - GroupWare like Interoperatibily Tools working cross customer. - Accountancy System - IPv6 - Sendmail/MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin/ClamAV (from my point of view the best combination to flexibly filter emails). - Scalable (control multi phyical servers from one 'admin' instance which could have dedicated funktions or even fail-over ability)
So what commercial or non commercial Hosting Pannel Software do you use or do know which would best fit those requirementes? There is money around to buy something if it's realy 'the solution'.
(oh, if some hoster would like to have us as customer, this also would be an option, but as scouting works on voluntary base and we try to offer everything mostly for free to our 'customer', we have no financial ressources for recuring fees - sponsoring could be negotiated)
Kind regards -Benoît Panizzon-