Web hosting preview for email solution
Email services in todays ICT world is one of must have for every company regardless of small, medium or enterprise the company is.

Linux and open source software is one of the best option in term of software costing, stability and reliability. Mail transfer agent (MTA) like Qmail, Sendmail, Posfix or Exim is among the popular one and I prefer to use  qmail to powered my email servers.

Why qmail?
Qmail is a sendmail replacement and is among the five most popular Unix mail servers on the Internet.

As the nature of open source, email server solution come with another handy software packages to complement with the qmail and it’s free of charge.

Qmail Ingredient
The installation and setup of a qmail based mail server requires list of softwares to work together and once again I remind you, all of the software listed below is free from software licensing fees.

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One of must have software for web hosting provider WHP is web hosting control panel. There are lot of commercial control panel out there like cPanel, HELM, H-sphere, Plesk etc.

For small hosting company or hosting company with little budget to spend on hosting control panel license, free open source hosting control is good alternative option to be considered.

Yes, open source web hosting control panel comparatively may be as good as commercial hosting control panel or even better.  Here I list out few free good hosting control panel for web hosting company to review before they spend money to buy commercial one.

1. Virtualmin
 

Virtualmin is the world’s most popular Open Source virtual hosting management system designed to make virtual hosting quick, reliable, and secure. It’s easy to install, professionally supported, and aggressively targeted to answering the needs of web hosting providers. Compare Virtualmin to cPanel, feature for feature. The new Virtualmin application stack is easier to install, easier to use, and provides the only complete web-based system management platform on the market.

2. ZPanel
ZPanel is a hosting control interface developed for both Windows and Linux hosts. They will soon be developing two different distributions to fit the needs of both platforms.

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