I am quite new to this forum and still feeling my way around. However, viewing this board I see no mention of Blue Quartz so thought I might add some links.

For some of us who started out hosting Colbalt RaQ servers, a smile will appear at the mention of their name. Others may recal the revolution in web hosting as the common public (well, almost) could learn to fly this very easy web GUI and add domain names, web sites and email accounts within minutes.

Sun bought Cobalt and quite quickly sunset the RaQ products which finished with the 550 model. The best bit? Sun (bless them) released the GUI as opensource, Blue quartz was bourne!

Typically, an Internet development group was formed and turned the Colbalt/Sun GUI into something which could be installed onto a standard Redhat based linux platform.

The milestone step came when Brian at nuonce networks built a bootable CD image which installs CentOS (Redhat Linux Enterprise server) and then Blue quartz. All from just sticking aC D in the drive and turning the PC/server on.

For more info and to download and try it, visit Brian's site at www.nuonce.net. Brian makes his money from selling easy to add on extras such as SpamAssassin and ClamAV etc.

I have a link somewhere for the Openwebmail package install file (installs through the web GUI) I will find it and post it on here if anyone is interested.

In all, BlueQuartz is basic but very reliable and totally FREE!

Give it a try.

Justin

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We had a few clients using it.

It was fine until it went wrong then it was a crock of sh1t just like the RaQ software.

ChrisB.

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StrongBolt is much better is you want raq-a-like

Or just go with an uptodate box and control panle that will do the same and is updated.

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Strongbolt is more to update old RaQ's than install on any server though right?

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yes strongbolt is a new o/s and bluequartz and patches on a cobalt.
if you're looking to run something on generic hardware, avoid the cobalt gui completely and get something like plesk or cpanel

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BQ is free and works faultlessly if you know what you are doing. there are support forums too which give loads of help and advice. Yes, like all packages, there are bugs at times but generally it works as well as the paid for packages you sugest but is free.

We run servers with both Blue Quartz and Cpanel. I can not say that I have seen more faults in releases with BQ than Cpanel.

The above is my experiance.

JJ

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