Your Own In House Control panel

Dexxa · 25th October 2005

If you had the chance to build your own in house control panel for your hosting company for both use on shared, resellers and dedicated servers what type of features whould you have?

This should be a little bit of fun,

I whould like to see a control panel that controls everything under one panel, to be able to manage the hosting account and shoutcast even game and dedicated servers, But that whould probly cost alot to be made

So what do you think, what type of features whould you have ?

, This is just out of intrest

chrisbyrd · 25th October 2005

Helm started as an in-house control panel

Dexxa · 25th October 2005

Yea, Helm is nice

I like thier billing feature

BurtyB · 25th October 2005

I'd like to see.. "holiday mode" you turn it on, bugger off for a few weeks come back and everything still works.

ChrisB.

fusion · 25th October 2005

Helm's billing has to be its weakest part if you ask me?! Not sure its their most impressive part?!

richardys · 25th October 2005

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Originally Posted by fusion

Helm's billing has to be its weakest part if you ask me?! Not sure its their most impressive part?!

I agree 100%, hopefully version 4 will be better.

fusion · 25th October 2005

ever hopeful, helm4 looks a drastic improvement in terms of looks .. but is it going to cut the mustard feature wise? billing really needs to be improved, as well as its search facilities and user management admin level.. along with other things... but other than that, its good

Provida · 26th October 2005

I'd have a big button that says "under no circumstances should you ever press this button" that debits the user's account by £1 every time it's pressed. I should be able to retire in a couple of weeks

OliverMargetts · 26th October 2005

That'd be naughty though

I'd like a version of cPanel (for customers that insist on it) that actually works

fusion · 26th October 2005

come on, could you imagine the helpdesk queue with the number of tickets related to your 'big button'

If you charged 1 squid per ticket as well, not only would you be able to retire from your button revenue, but you could buy a small country or island also...

Andrew · 26th October 2005

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Originally Posted by OliverMargetts

I'd like a version of cPanel (for customers that insist on it) that actually works

Would love that....

Anyone one else had problems with Stats since upgradign to the latest version? (*stable* that is).

fusion · 26th October 2005

its cpanel.. does anything work in any stable version of it?

vaserv · 26th October 2005

Taking on all recent installs I've been having to manually add Net::Aim I would say not

rus

Dexxa · 26th October 2005

My old host never had any problems with cpanel,

The new host im on now well thats another story, Always getting too many connections to mysql error

OliverMargetts · 26th October 2005

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Originally Posted by fusion

its cpanel.. does anything work in any stable version of it?

Not really...

"cPanel, server management on the edge"

In other words "We break something new every update and deny for weeks that there's a problem! Then take another four months of head scratching to come up with a 'fix'. And the cycle continues."

EDIT: Forgot the irony there, cPanel has an "Edge" build, doesn't it. Stable is buggy, Edge must be great fun.