NewsForge: ISPConfig: A Hosting Control Panel | Linux Today

NewsForge: ISPConfig: A Hosting Control Panel

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 11, 2006

“A while ago I moved the debianHELP site to another server and
was faced with the prospect of building the box from scratch. To
me, handling Apache or MySQL is no problem, but I loath setting up
virtual email domains. Being of the lazy sort, I decided to examine
free software hosting control panels and to install one on the box
I was going to build.

“I started my quest with a quick Freshmeat search, which turned
up more than a dozen projects. I looked at the projects’ vitality
and long-term prospects, their attitude toward free software, and,
since this was going to run on a Debian box, their support of
Debian…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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