[LRUG] server admin UI on VPS?

[Mickael Riga]

Was not obvious in our responses, but the control you have implies the installation of a panel of any kind.
So Plesk, CPanel or any other choice.

On 21 May 2012, at 18:52, Viktor Tron wrote:

> 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
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>> 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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