Controlling servers (e.g. apache, samba)

[John Dangler]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 06:10 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 19:47 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > What surprises me is that WebMin is not in the official repositories
> > -- it's such a useful program. 
> 
> "I didn't say that tools didn't exist; I said they utterly sucked. And I
> was really hoping no one would bring up webmin. It's a piece of software
> so horrifyingly vile that we want absolutely _nothing_ to do with it,
> not even carry it in the Ubuntu archive. The entirety of the
> ubuntu-server team had a small celebration the day that package was killed."
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-September/020471.html
> 
> 
So, since webmin is obviously _not_ the developers/maintainers choice,
what is/are the alternative(s) ?
One alternative that I tried was ISPConfig (under Breezxy).  ISPConfig
is a nightmare with Ubuntu, and is as difficult to remove as Norton on
Doze (and doesn't handle qmail/vpopmail, among other things).

So, what do the developers/maintainers suggest?