If I wanted to setup a free hosting system for some people to use, what script would people recommend? I'd just like to have it automated, work on Cpanel, give them a subdomain, ftp access, and the basics. And, I'd like to be able to have it automaticlaly put advertising on the free hosted sites. Can be a free script, or not free if it's not terribly expensive. Thanks!

check out xpanel.com

their system runs with cpanel and the price is really good at $49

one good feature it has is that it would let your users upgrade to a paid service with more features.

btw, i'm not affiliated with xpanel but i did a review on their system in the past and would have purchased it but we decided to forego the free hosting business.

Thanks, I'll have a look at www.xpanel.com.

Ys. I own many licenses of xPanel. It's fantastic. Just make sure you set it up to use pure_ftpd instead of proftpd.

does anyone have any experience with free-servers I hear they offer free webhosting and website tools.

any advice would be appreciated.

cP Account Creator
This script started with the idea to allow your sites visitors to add email accounts to your cPanel server using a simple webpage interface. It's evolved to allow users to add a MySQL database, FTP user and create a subdomain all with one simple form. There is no skin, just simply add the contents of several files to you existing page. There is a very simple admin area that allows deletion of accounts and viewing of the account information. It's still in the Beta stages, but it's very flexible. it now cabible of adding a phpbb board
http://scripts.freemans-web.com/ free and very good and getting better

than i just use a filemanager from genesis,efileman ones free one free/pay
invision also has one