Forum: Ruby on Rails PHP -> Ruby On Rails: advice wanted on customer management ( dns / email )

Ive searched this group and google Groups and hope this topic
will get approved since ruby on rails tak seems the only place I could
ask.

CURRENT SITUATION:
Currently Im using a Plesk, PHP, Ruby Enterprise VPS with the plesk
for managing customers ( email, passwords, etc )
Mainly all my websites use a custom account for each customer with its
own /httpdocs to serve the php files from ( Wordpress )
customers do not have ftp access and don't need them, they only edit
there websites true the wordpress modified CMS we use.

WANTED SITUATION
I currently investigate in migrating all this to Radiant with the
Multisite Extension. Since I want to dish and leave PHP behind me
after falling in love with ROR.
It seems like a great solution to have a central radiant based CMS
solution but then there is the problem !

FACING PROBLEMS, ADVICE?
We need a solution to manage customers, create email accounts for them
and host this on the server.
We need a way to easily manage customers, adding emails hosting those
mailboxes, with spamassasin and preferreable some
config panel ( replacing plesk ) to mangage the server backups,
clients, email accounts and other settings.

Is there a solution for this? Ive searched high and low but found no
solution for this yet.
Advice on above would be higly appreciated. Thank you.

On 09 Feb 2010, at 09:45, rubybox wrote:

> Multisite Extension. Since I want to dish and leave PHP behind me
> clients, email accounts and other settings.
>
> Is there a solution for this? Ive searched high and low but found no
> solution for this yet.
> Advice on above would be higly appreciated. Thank you.

Why would you need to give up Plesk for that? It's just a matter of
pointing to the same Radiant in the vhost.conf file if you use
Passenger. Everything else just stays the way it is.

DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/path/to/rails/app/public

No matter how much disadvantages and quirks I think Plesk and cPanel
have, if you want to provide your customer with a fancy pancy control
panel that they can understand and you can manage easily, using either
one of those is a necessary evil.


Best regards

Peter De Berdt

Hi

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user name:  admin
password:   pass

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Regards,
Shyam
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shyam@crypsis.net

> No matter how much disadvantages and quirks I think Plesk and cPanel  
> have, if you want to provide your customer with a fancy pancy control  
> panel that they can understand and you can manage easily, using either  
> one of those is a necessary evil.
>
> Best regards
>
> Peter De Berdt

I use plesk only myself, customers have no panel access. I create
domains and emails for them.
So Plesk should go.. It costs me around 120 EUR extra each year and
Its not that great,
If only I do is creating ruby apps I wont need the creation of
database with plesk, i can do all from command line.

A simple panel to create some users and email accounts would be nice
though.
Heroku does not support this I believe do you know a good ruby hoster
that does this?

On 09 Feb 2010, at 13:10, rubybox wrote:

> I use plesk only myself, customers have no panel access. I create
> domains and emails for them.
> So Plesk should go.. It costs me around 120 EUR extra each year and
> Its not that great,
> If only I do is creating ruby apps I wont need the creation of
> database with plesk, i can do all from command line.
>
> A simple panel to create some users and email accounts would be nice
> though.
> Heroku does not support this I believe do you know a good ruby hoster
> that does this?

Well, if you want it to be free, you can just take Webmin and/or
Virtualmin (http://www.webmin.com/). It's not as userfriendly, but it
does just about everything you can imagine through a web interface.

Some more alternatives are highlighted here: 
http://lordmatt.co.uk/item/966/


Best regards

Peter De Berdt

rubybox wrote:
>> No matter how much disadvantages and quirks I think Plesk and cPanel �
>> have, if you want to provide your customer with a fancy pancy control �
>> panel that they can understand and you can manage easily, using either �
>> one of those is a necessary evil.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Peter De Berdt
> 
> I use plesk only myself, customers have no panel access. I create
> domains and emails for them.
> So Plesk should go.. It costs me around 120 EUR extra each year and
> Its not that great,
> If only I do is creating ruby apps I wont need the creation of
> database with plesk, i can do all from command line.
> 

How about Webmin, then?

Best,
-- 
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org