On Sat, 30 May 2009, Barney Desmond wrote:
In the hosting world this is very common, how many of those plesk boxes out
there with A,www-A and mail-A/MX point to same IP, tens of thousands
yielding hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of domains I'd say :)
Of course ISP's and large ASP/OSP's using internal prorietory setups with
separate servers for WWW/MX, and most businesses above SOHO,
would of course use separate servers and IP's.
I can only speak for my own employer (hosting provider in Australia),
but my anecdotal findings have to agree with Wietse's (but the scope
may not match that of the original assertions). The only
On the overall scheme of things I would agree, at the ISP's I've been
associated with over the past 15 years, not a one has used those pesky
control panels, we have always used inhouse systems where we have separate
web/mail/dns/etc for hosting.. but, there are many out there using
those control panels (including a very well known aussie hosting company
(I know this because a few years ago they housed some of them in our data
centre), a lot of part time ma 'n pa hosting ops, part time uni students
doing their thing, all around the world, however, that said, most of them
would still use their home connectivity provider (cable/dsl/dial) to send
outbound mail anyway, many don't using their hostings SMTP auth but most
do.
customers, which we don't support (we have no love whatsoever for
these control panels). We have, at a guess, an order of magnitude more
I agree, nothing beats a custom well written and functional portal.
and last I heard plesk was still using qmail LOL (of course that may have
changed by now)
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