Nutex VServer

Nutex VServer is an system for ISP that can manage one or more servers from one central place. One server could be the master server and the others the nodes.

It provides 4 levels of administration: Admin, Reseller, Domain Owner and Email User. In every level of administration, one can manage its own data and the data of the underlying levels. It is written solely in PHP and uses XML-RPC and HTTPS to communicate with the nodes.

It provides support for Apache (PHP mod_ssl mod_perl Frontpage), qmail (vmailmgr autorespond ezmlm), Proftp, MySQL, Webalizer, Bind, Tomcat, Quota, Multi-Language, Skins and others.

It has its own instance of Apache that runs with the privileges of the user vserver. It uses sudo to change to root and manage everything. As it uses its own instance of apache it will still run in case the main apache on the same server has problems and won't restart anymore.

The master and the nodes use ssl to communicate. The master also has to know the password of the node's vserver. The node checks the ip of the caller and if it is not the ip of the server it won't respond. To enhance the security cracklib is used to check the passwords.

There are checks to make the communication secure but you should consider to use a private network for the master-node communication.

There is also a notification system, so that if a user changes for example changes his data, his reseller and the admins get an notification email. The same if the reseller data gets changed the admins get an email.

The quota gets checked once each day and if it gets exceeded for resellers or domains they get a notification email. Whenever the emails get sent, the notification system checks the language of every user that should get the emails and chooses the appropriate text.

Features:

- multi language
- it has skins support (smarty)
- it has reseller support
- it can be used to manage lots of servers
- the reseller gets one or more servers and ips that belong to the "owned" servers
- resellers, domain owners and users can manage their own data
- it uses cracklib to check how secure the passwords are
- it uses mysql
- qmail as mail server and vmailmgr for domains
- autorespond
- one quota for mysql, email, webspace and so on.
- wap
- jsp
- custom errors
- frontpage
- htaccess support
- notification system
- mailinglist support
- anonymous ftp for every domain
- php
- ssi
- cgi
- ssl
- statistics (webalizer)
- email aliases
- forwarding
- autorespond