Do you think it would be possible to make a control panel better than cobalt? I was planing on making a control panel like the raqs then selling servers with it. Do you think it is possible or am i just dreaming?
i was planning on writing the control panel in php3.

Anyone got any ideas for features?

I wouldnt say the control panel is the worlds greatest. So yeah id imagine you could make a better version for your servers.

At some point you are going to have to setreuid(), so php is probably not your best choice to write it in.

webfusion made custom raq control panels.

so i should just use cgi instead? any of you got any ideas for features?

One more question what software would you reccomend i use for it, like what ftp, e-mail etc..

You'll have to setreuid to the user somehow. You best bet it to write a simple webserver to handle all request that would have to run as the user. This is probably the best security model, but it isn't easy to do. As for mail and ftp. There are a lot of choices out there, you might look at freshmeat.net for a few. I really can't provide you with too much help as it would be a conflict of intrests (with cpanel.net/vdi.net)

ok thanks for the info