[LRUG] server admin UI on VPS?

[Viktor Tron]

Thanks guys, I am already using linode as my preferred VPS.  Linode admin  
console is more like managing your VPS/account.
But the point is to give the client a UI to administer things. A UI better  
than calling me to change stuff :)

OK so let's be specific.
Sure installing a blog and a forum probably easy.
What tools if any allow:
manage emails, maybe mailing lists
manage subdomains, do GUIs exist for nginx/apache?
detailed web access analytics GUI
manage ftp accounts
view db directly (like phpMyAdmin)
thanks a million

On Mon, 21 May 2012 18:32:11 +0100, Chris Adams <mail at chrisadams.me.uk>  
wrote:

> I'd second James on the Linode recommendation.
>
> You'll get more server your money than if you go with AWS.
>
> C
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> On Monday, 21 May 2012 at 18:29, Ed James (Alt) wrote:
>>>> Hey,
>>
>> It sounds like you need full control of your server, so you're probably  
>> better off going with a provider like Amazon or Linode. You'll get a  
>> bare-bones server install and the rest is up to you, so if you're not  
>> afraid of the sys-admin side of things >>this is what I'd suggest.
>>
>> The Linode admin console is ok, but their tech support and prices are  
>> excellent.
>>
>> --Ed James
>> Sent with Sparrow
>>
>>
>> On Monday, 21 May 2012 at 18:25, Viktor Tron wrote:
>>>>>> 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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