Existing users, 
Webmin
Web-based interface for Unix system administration.
Version: 1.490
Not for mission critical websites
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: lbrown5 Wednesday, April 11 2007 @ 06:28 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
Do not try to use Webmin for live websites that use anything beyond simple programming or HTML! I am a web developer and Unix-like systems (Unix, Linux, OS X, etc.) administrator. I have had nothing but trouble on all systems on which Webmin is installed. Some problems I have had even with this "upgrade": Webmin and module upgrades removing existing modules, log rotation breaking and becoming un-reparable for no apparent reason (just installed Webmin upgrade, tried to delete all log rotations and got an error about a missing Perl file), failed upgrades and module installations, miscellaneous changes to application (Apache, FTP) configuration, crashes requiring a hardware restart (call the ISP), etc. etc. etc. Webmin is FREE and is meant for a website on that kind of budget. If you want security, ease of use and RELIABILITY, use WHM/CPanel. It costs money, but you'll get it back in saved time and headaches.
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Not for mission critical websites - lbrown5
All I'm saying is this:If you want security, ease of use and RELIABILITY, use WHM/CPanel. It costs money, but you'll get it back in saved time and headaches.
Period.
Saturday, June 02 2007 @ 08:38 AM PDT
Not for mission critical websites - Jeff Mincey
That might well be true. Some people prefer PLESK also.Webmin is simply a modest attempt to put a GUI on the otherwise obscure configurable settings generally found within text files in the /etc directory.
It's useful and has a place in the market, but I would agree it's not top of the line by any means (in its product category).
Saturday, June 02 2007 @ 09:56 AM PDT
Not for mission critical websites - alfanine
cpanel is shit. a big piece of junk, Plesk rocks and so does webadmin. but of course webadmin is a little more difficult to use then pleskthis poster has not a clue about webadmin.. CPANEL.. what a joke that is.. ( I bought it used it , updatdes suck, support sucks..
webadmin does not do anything really to the webserver, it has its own little config to connect to , other then that there is really nothing that web admin does with the http connection..
This guy is just yapping!
Saturday, December 22 2007 @ 08:19 AM PST
Not for mission critical websites - Jeff Mincey
The kind of problems you identify as allegedly pertaining to webmin are entirely unrelated to whether a server hosts web sites AT ALL -- to say nothing of whether it hosts sophisticated sites or only sites with straightforward XHTML.You say you are a UNIX admin, but I don't think you understand the purpose behind webmin.
You may have encountered bona fide bugs in the product, or you may have been using it on a distro which webmin doesn't fully support. Either way, it has nothing to do with what kind of web site a server may or may not have.
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Friday, June 01 2007 @ 02:23 PM PDT