I've been installing Redhat ES now for a while and am getting more confident about getting new servers up and running, however one of our customers has just asked for a server running Redhat but wants to have Control Panel access to the box.
1. Top posting is when you post your reply on top of the email instead of at the bottom like I am doing here. Personally, I prefer top posting, but the majority of the community does not, so I must bottom post. The reason for bottom posting instead of top posting is so that you can read from top to bottom the first email to the last reply.
2. Yes, Cpanel ( http://www.cpanel.net ) is expensive depending on how you look at it. I have several servers with Ensim ( http://www.ensim.com ) on them and webmin ( http://www.webmin.com ). Ensim is not free either. Webmin is...under GPL I believe.
3. Before even suggesting a control panel to a customer, you really REALLY need to find out what they are going to use it for. If they are going to do virtual hosting and want their clients to also have a control panel, then Ensim or Cpanel would probably be the way to go. Webmin will do it, but I find it a little clunky myself. Cpanel has a hefty price tag. Ensim has had its problems too but we go with Ensim because of the price tag. In some ways though, Ensim is very costly. They have put out a few upgrades/patches that have just plain trashed my system so that we had to have another server to move sites to and then reformat the old server. So the $1,250 dollars for Cpanel is cheap compared to the extra $2,500 for a new server that we had to come up with an Ensim box we had to replace. I have had good results with Ensim this past year though.
You are going to have to make the call, along with your client, as to what control panel you would want to use. I have worked with Cpanel about 3 years ago and didn't like it as much as Ensim. I know other people that prefer Ensim over Cpanel and others that prefer Cpanel over Ensim. I have webmin on all of my systems that are not Windows based even though I have Ensim on them too. Be careful of that though. Ensim and other control panels want to do things on your server in their own way and if you change things with webmin or another control panel on the same box, you can really mess things up. My suggestion on that is to not have more than one control panel software on your server unless you really REALLY know what you are doing.
Steve
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