====== web hosting ======
  * http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20121123193717390/WebHostingControlPanels.html
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===== http://www.openpanel.com/ =====
http://www.openpanel.com/

Features include:

    Attractive interface with a modern JavaScript application
    Simple and secure
    Full IPv6 support
    Easy-to-use command line interface for hardcore users
    Frugal with system resources
    Email management:
        Multiple email accounts
        Antispam
        Forwarders
    Supported Backends:
        Web server:
            Apache virtual hosts
        FTP server:
            PureFTPd chrooted ftp-accounts
        Mail:
            Courier-IMAP hosted mail domains
            Postfix
        Database:
            MySQL
        Programming languages:
            PHP
    OpenSSH user access
    BIND9 DNS zones
    IPTables firewall configuration
    Software updates through apt
    Add additional functionality with modules

===== virtualmin =====
http://www.virtualmin.com/

Features include:

    Four ways to manage a server: Web, command line, mobile device and remote API
    Easy to install and update dozens of web applications, including blogs such as WordPress, CMS like Joomla and Drupal, wikis including MediaWiki and DokuWiki
    Simple WYSIWYG HTML editor in the File Manager application development frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django
    Complete, simple to use, remote and command line API. Flexible and open API for creating third party modules
    Email management:
        Multiple email accounts
        Antivirus - on a per-user and per-domain basis. It uses ClamAV
        Antispam - on a per-user and per-domain basis with automatic spam clearing. It uses the popular SpamAssassin
        Forwarders
        Mailbox quota
        DomainKeys
        DKIM - a standard for signing email messages so that the recipient can verify the sender's email address. This allows recipient mail servers to detect sender address forgery, which is often used by spammers to avoid sender domain blacklists. Virtualmin uses a milter to implement DKIM signing and verification
    Automatic DNS slave configuration features - automatically manage any number of DNS slave servers
    Supported Backends:
        Web server:
            Lighthttpd
            Apache
            Nginx - a lightweight webserver that supports most of the functionality of Apache, but is faster and uses less memory
        FTP server:
            PureFTPd
            Vsftp
            ProFTPd
        Mail:
            Dovecot
            Courier
            Sendmail
            Postfix
        Database (with the option of using remote databases):
            PostgreSQL
            MySQL
        Programming languages:
            PHP
            Perl
            Python
            Installation and management of the Django web application development framework, and installation of new Django applications from the Install Scripts interface
        Support for setting up Ruby on Rails in a virtual server
        Optional mode for PHP Pear
        Optional mode for Ruby Gems

Virtualmin in action