[LEFT]Ok. Let me first say this: After about a day of fussing around, I’m rather exhausted and slightly disappointed that so far I haven’t gotten any answers. This is not directed towards interworx in any manner, I’m just slightly battered around by well, competitors.
It took me a while to find interworx, but from what I’ve glanced over, it looks to be pretty complete and have a generally nice setup, and may actually be able to cover my needs.
I have been using cPanel for quite a while, and as I’m sure you’re aware… the fact that it likes to stick its head into everything is a little annoying, to say the least. I also happen to royally despise the fact that it chooses to use only apache 1.3.3.7 (no webdav 
no mod_ruby no worthwhile mod anything :() as well as its uhm… rather slow software update in terms of capability, features, and “getting with the times.” Not to mention that every update almost always means something goes wrong 
I have the capability to do just about everything myself from a hosting point of view… the reason to use a control panel software is to automate some of those rather annoying tasks (like creating BIND zones and such). Everyone who has done that for even a single domain knows that its a pain in the ass and well, should never be done for more than 1 domain on a server lol.
I have grown out of cpanel because I need a rather large number of custom options compiled into php, added to apache, and overall applied to the system, something that cpanel likes to break. I also need apache2, as I said earlier, as well as some rather nicer control of the system. Basically, a control panel that handles the hosting, nothing more.
I have a few questions about interworx… and given that they’re all answered in the way that would make me happy, I may be sticking around here for a while, because from everything I’ve seen, I kinda want to already
The first one, is, I recently just tried plesk, and discovered that for whatever reason, they use a different system than the normal linux user system:
Users dont exist, its “clients” and they dont have a username/password on your linux box.
The home directory, is not /home… its /var/www/vhosts
The document root, is not public_html, its /var/www/vhosts/domainname.com/httpdocs
The subdomain directories are not public_html/subdomain, they are /var/www/vhosts/domainname.com/subdomains/subdomain (then /httpdocs)
SSH users are then handled by the ftp username (but they do not get a home directory in /home/ =/)
This makes me unhappy, as I tend to allow some of my buddies to host things that I dont necessarily allow my customers (most of my “customers” are buddies though, in a 100+ domain system). Teamspeak, icecast, custom software that generally requires shellaccess and some extra setup within a shell folder, and doing this in a non-/home folder makes administration and well, most of my monitoring, go away.
Also, since the server itself is primarily for my own site hosting and development, a lot of my scripts depend on a localized subdomain setup which I would much rather not stray from.
ALSO, mod_userdir is nice, plesk doesnt allow it…
So basically, i suppose the question I have to ask is… does Interworx create actual user accounts, and when it does, does it allow access through the normal linux way AND when you create a domain in interworx does it set up the virtual host/domain in a /home/username/public_html setup or does it set it up in a different manner?
And, for an account (username) does interworx allow child domains and such (parked/addon) that sit inside their own folder in public_html/ (or a specified folder within the user’s directory), and does interworx do subdomains in a public_html/subdomain structure?
Save me from plesk, 5 hours ago I started out with a rum & coke and 5 hours later I havent finished it because I’m annoyed and frustrated!
(Sorry about the long post, and thanks for any answers you can provide me!)
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of our compedators. There is no shortage of users here who will gladly chime in and tell you that we only release stable software (even the release candidates are prety stable even if they still have a few bugs)