Providing a Virtual Hosting Service with Windows3k

[gremin]

Hi There, My company provides virtual hosting services with linux/php/mysql. We have been asked by a couple of major clients to provide ASP/.NET on windows with MsSQL virtual hosting services as well... Im just doing some reasearch into this. Can any one provide me with any good pointers/links to help me in this?

Thanks

Simon

[egrath]

Hi,

what in detail do you wann'a know?

General Implementation Details?

How to implement it in your case?

If you know how to set up Apache/MySQL/PHP with virtual hosting you should have no problem in setting up IIS/MsSQL/ASP because like most other MS Software, it's nearly self explaning on how to set up it.

If you want to master the full details of IIS i can recommend you the following two books:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/073...3277952-9423857

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...g=UTF8&v=glance

Egon

[gremin]

Hey Thanks for the reply. I guess from more of a security/process side. Ive spent a long time making sure that our hosting service with LAMP is ultra secure. I just want to implement that same ideal on a windows platform as well.

Also any gotchas with licencing etc.

The other key fact is automation. We have a fully automated control panel for our LAMP/Mail/DNS setup and i would want to look at intergrating any other platforms into that. (e.g. setup web hosts/settings etc).

[chilifrei64]

I use this and it works great

http://helm.webhostautomation.com/

[gremin]

Hmmm - looks good. Can you configure the look and feel of it? Do you know if you can 'hook' into it via another system to make configuration changes?

[chilifrei64]

not that i have tried.. we have it set up on each machine.. it has been a while since setting it up though...

I have version 6.0 and it gives you 3 different color options. That is about all in terms of look and feel configuration...

[gremin]

This software seems pretty good so far... I bit overkill for what i need i think, but good. Can anyone else provide a like product?