[LRUG] server admin UI on VPS?

[Viktor Tron]

Hi lruggers,

Sorry for this offish email, but so many clever web people here I wanna  
hear you.

I developed a rails app. The client also wants to do a lot of management  
on the server on the same domain, ideally including:
blog (wordpress)
forum (ideally seeded with a phpforum export, but not crucial)
manage emails, maybe mailing lists
manage subdomains
detailed anaylytics
ftp accounts, manage access
Since for background jobs I almost defo need root access we opted for a  
host that offered cpanel-based managed server with root access.
Now apart from the fact that cpanel feels like a thing of the past and  
looks like a monster if you look on the server, I also failed to hack  
apache config to handle my rails app (running on passenger)
(I simply wanted 2 vhost entries, non-ssl one redirecting to the the other  
on ssl, already something impossible to do)

The above seems like a pretty reasonable list of things to want. Now my  
question to you. How is this best done?
I do not mind to install wordpress myself and get my hands dirty if you  
suggest good solutions to the other tasks?
Are heroku and suchlike rails-friendly hosts offering you these admin UIs  
and I am just better off trying to get my rails app working without  
insisting on root shell?

I appreciate all comments and pointers

Vik
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