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Originally Posted by livexxx
I'd go for the control panel if you dont know how to install your own, and go for a provider that doesnt try and rent you a free one either.
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that's why i said, get a managed box.
believe me, a control panel is not something you want on your nats/members area box. It's great if you like things easy, if you don't have a lot of knowledge, if you like to add domains or mailboxes every day for fun, or if you are just used to your routines.
It installs a ton of stuff you don't even need, customization or performance optimization is quite hard if you don't want to break the control panel setup, creates new security risks and is just simply not necessary if you have a managed box.
Ask yourself if you really need 3 different stats software, skins and language packages for your control panel, 3 different webmails, etc etc when you run a members area. Just get plain box, have your host install apache and/or nginx, sql, sftp and everything you need, have them optimize the whole setup and you will have the fastest and most secure setup.
Honestly, how often do you add a mailbox or a domain? We offer our customers with hosted email which will still works if your server goes down (most people still don't realize that they can't email if their mailserver on their own server is down) and we offer hosted dns. Both come with a web-based admin inside our customer portal. Databases can easily be done through phpmyadmin on your server self. So the only thing left are vhosts for which you should then create a ticket.