On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:18:09 +0000 Mark Rogers mark@more-solutions.co.uk allegedly wrote:
On 29 January 2016 at 14:07, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
OK, they want a GUI, Webmin's a gui. There will be overhead, *BUT* what overhead?
Memory, basically. For webmin I need Apache and that isn't needed otherwise.
No you don't. Apache is an unnecessary resource hog. I gave up using it over decade ago. I use lighttpd for all my web services. And I use it with webmin. If you want a /really/ lightweight HTTP daemon, take a look at tHttpd (although that is now very old).
Also: +1 for SFTP. You really don't want vanilla FTP passing credentials in the clear. I think gFTP is a good gui client for linux/OSX (though that too is now sadly getting long in the tooth).
(And thanks to Laurie for the pointer to Ansible.)
Mick
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