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Hi everyone,
We are thinking of offering hosting and reseller accounts on a FreeBSD system and want to offer our users a control panel.
We could very easily write a decent system in-house but what value do users attach on a known control panel tool?
Since we're on FreeBSD our choice is limited, we have a couple of open source solutions to choose from, PSA and I believe CPanel.
I've spoken to Plesk about this licensing (I didn't like the fact that you'd have to buy either a 30 domain or a 300 domain license) and they suggested perhaps becoming a Gold partner would be better for us. This requires us to 'invest' (read: give away your money to some random company) $1000 :laugh: and pay a $1000/year renewal :laugh: and then buy a minimum of 30 licenses. (Discounts range from 20% when purchasing less than 10 licenses in one transaction to 35% when purchasing over 30).
Who else here uses Plesk? How are you affording such a product?
I'm in half a mind to set a few man hours aside to write something that kicks Plesks a**... we'd write it in SOAP so you can control multiple servers from one machine aswell as write your own client in anything that supports SOAP (Almost any programming language).... We'd also make it platform independant (Supporting BSD, Linux and Windows). And finally, we'd include some decent billing system. Any input from people here on this idea?
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