I have very little Linux experience or experience setting up servers even. I need to set my Linode up with a LAMP stack which I think I can do by following all the documentation.

I need to set up my main site which will have a domain but then I need to also be able to host client sites/domains as well, I am not sure how to go about this, as of right now I only have 2 client sites that need to be set up but 1 of them needs to have a SSL Certificate for eCommerce.

From reading the site it sounds like I would just add additional sites by adding virtualhost records to Apache. I am curious though is there a way to simplify this? Like install some kind of control panel which can create new accounts/domains for my client sites from a web frontend?

If I can't figure this out I may have to find someone else to do it for me but I would love any advice I can get on how to set this up to simplify adding new client sites in the future as I get more?

Check out http://cpanel.net/

Then just take a dull spoon and scoop out what's left of your tiny little brain.

Why would you get a VPS system, which offers COMPLETE control of all aspects of your system and then hobble it with a control panel, and a expensive resource sucking panel at that?

If you're the only sysadmin for the box, then control panels are a complete waste. Only IF you need to let your clients manage their own resources is a control panel a necessary evil.

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