@scottalanmiller Did you use the Opensource edition or the paid product? and does it run on Debian based distros?

@scottalanmiller - I've heard about Zimbra, that's one I haven't personally tried, have you?

@scottalanmiller You never know, perhaps you could drive it? - I have tried most features out and the samba shares are nice and easy to get configured. The only thing that didn't seem as stable was the mail side of things, I suppose that don't matter as most would be using 365 or Google Apps (or G office or whatever it's called now lol) anyway.

I have used Zentyal and had a great interest in watching over the community and seeing how it was progressing, but I did notice the community is pretty dead.

What plan did you go for on G Spot...

On a serious note, I think Google Apps sounds better then G Suite.

looks interesting, might have to fire that up in a vm

Wow, is all I can say on this thread....

I did try an early version of the product which was good and did work, I did get some freezing with it early on but probably improved now. link is here: https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/

I know a CentOs is highly recommended for server stuff but I personally use the Ubuntu server edition and am happy with it, I do prefer Debian based distro's though.

Wow what a thread, took me a while to read through it

@htbase - I see, more targeting vps instances then rather than basic static web hosting pages.

your probably find a lot of customers would like Cpanel as well, and if you then go on to reselling then you would need WHM and cpanel.

Nice setup Nash!

I even created a forward email address i.e [email protected] that will automatically raise a ticket in the system.

I setup Freshdesk for a company about a year ago, still working to this day..very nice product.

Brilliant Read, I've used Esxi and Hyper-V, good products, but I do have a inner love for Xencenter..

@dafyre Hey, all good here, just had me lunch, eggs on toast....Eggsellent

Great post, I used this method about a month ago to create an offline install as well, was a lot quicker then keep downloading directly from 365, especially if you have not got a quick connection and install office regularly on users machines. When you first run office it ask for an activation key and under the input box is a link saying activate using an email address, you then just enter a 365 email address which has the relevant licence attached.

Here is my homelab, Xenserver 7.0 running on Dell PowerEdge T110 II
16GB RAM, 500GB single drive
Synology Nas
Netgear Smart Vlan capable switch.
Few ubuntu servers and a windows server 2012R2 template.
All setup on some funky old chest of drawers lol.

Thank you Scott, and hello everyone