[Tfug] The Semiannual Colocation/hosting service question

[Matt Jacob]

keith smith wrote:
> Do they give you a control panel or is it all shell?

There's a control panel, but it controls your services as a whole and 
not individual components of the server. In other words, it's not like 
cPanel or Plesk, but you can do cool things like launch an AJAX console 
(in case you write firewall rules that accidentally block you out of SSH 
or something), take backup images, perform a hard reboot, rebuild from a 
base image, manage DNS, etc.

All administration of the box is done from the shell, though.

Matt