Benoit,
most of what you requested could be supported with the Plesk platform (www.swsoft.com) There are many companies that offer a shared platform based on this product. You can have your own "reseller" account where you create your domains within certain limits.
Having a dedicated server is anyway more expensive than renting a shared space.
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From: Benoit Panizzon panizzon@woody.ch To: swinog@swinog.ch Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 10:06:55 AM Subject: [swinog] Which Hosting Pannel can you recommend?
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-
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