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pankajtamarakar
07-27-2004, 04:18 PM
;) I am wasted :angry: my time for free control panel finally i decided to develop one for me and others too who can't invest more money in startup. But this cost some money to me so i can't give it free but i can give it in $2 :bawling: monthly fees per server which is affordable to maney of us.

6PS-Jake
07-27-2004, 06:31 PM
pankajtamarakar,

Not to be negative, but an undertaking like making a control panel would take a tremendous amount of man hours.

You devs out there... I know this is impossible to guess without a spec, but making a control panel for Windows... SHoot I guess would take at least a year for a team of 3 good devs, 1 graphics design guy, and a network guru. It might take two years.

3 devs = $405,600.00 (per year) (65.00/hour). We would assume you would salary the three poor saps at 100K and work them to death. Lets Cap this at $300,000.00

1 Graphics Designer @ 50K (Have to pay him well to put up with the sleep deprived devs)

1 Network Engineer Type @ 75K (He will have to work over alot to clean the porn off the Devs box + Most Networking guys don't really "know" hosting so he is kinda specialized.

The human resources would cost about $530,600 + Benefits (35 percent) = $716, 300/year

Lets slap in some server hardware (3 dedicated servers and a firewall) @ $25K/year and workstations $10,000 = $35K/year

There will be some misc services you need so lets guess another 75K in services.

Good Lord... I keep thinking of costs, but you are looking at a ton of time and effort to make a control panel


Moral of this story: Check out Plesk for Windows 7.0 They have done a pretty decent job on it and have corrected the crappy stuff from 6.5