We have configured a backup, testing, and monitoring server on our Intranet to enhance the services we can provide while further reducing our overhead costs.   We can now automate our off site backups and site monitoriing, saving time required for manually performing these tasks as well as making them more reliable and scalable.

All of the software running on this server is open source.  We don't have anything against proprietary software; we use Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office products on a daily basis, running on Windows PCs with Intel processors.  However, these particular applications allow us to leverage the work of many thousands of developers, and they're widely accepted as industry standards for website development and hosting.

There are many, many contribitors to LINUX, and specifically to the UBUNTU LINUX distribution, and we thank them all.

WebMin is a server control panel that provides a graphical administrator control panel for configuring and monitoring our UBUNTU server.  We considered using ISPConfig, which is a hosting control panel, but it was not a good match to our CPanel controlled client sites.  WebMin's tool set gives us low level control over the Linux server with a convenient graphical control panel.

We make extensive use of the LAMP server included in the UBUNTU Linux distribution, running Apache webserver, MySQL database, and PHP scripting.