Hi

I am looking for a free controlpanel, which one is the best to use ?

Yff

Control panel for what?

Proberly for his hosting company he's gonna start (guess)

correct.
How could you even ask... isn't this a webhosting forum ?

Yes, but it could of meant games control panel etc!

IMO, all the free control panel suck. they all lack some features that only paid cp like plesk, directadmin, cpanel offer

Why so negative .....

Some of the best software out there is in fact Open Source

IMO, all the free control panel suck. they all lack some features that only paid cp like plesk, directadmin, cpanel offer

What kind of feature is missing exactly ? I think my project can face commercial products even it has some lacks in the billing/reseller part (you can always use a (free) billing software at the same time).

Thomas

Why so negative .....

Some of the best software out there is in fact Open Source

i'm not being negative or whatever. i'm just telling you like it is. how many host use free cp? large % of host use commerical cp because they offer better features. why do cpanel have so much marketshare? heck it cost a lot for a owned copy even the lease price is not cheap and yet so many host offer cpanel.

personal, i think cpanel suck too compare to other paid panel but it give users what they want.

Direct admin i hear is quite cheap. Well compared to Cpanel and plesk that is. I guess a free cpanel will not have all the main features of a paid/leased one.

Best of luck

I think for me the biggest gripe I have with alot the free panels/open source software out there is that they all look like they were designed by programmers. They don't give much thought to the actual design and "wow factor" of the product. I know thats not important to making a good stable product but it definately impacts the customer and their feel when they go in there.

I think for me the biggest gripe I have with alot the free panels/open source software out there is that they all look like they were designed by programmers.

And all the commercial control panels (*cough**cough*cPanel*cough**cough*) are the pinnacle of design?!

FYI: I use cPanel quite happily, but without buying extra skins it too is not exactly 100% intuative to a non-techie.

i'm not being negative or whatever. i'm just telling you like it is. how many host use free cp? large % of host use commerical cp because they offer better features. why do cpanel have so much marketshare?

personal, i think cpanel suck too compare to other paid panel but it give users what they want.

cPanel has a lot of market share because they are good in marketting. Why do you think microsoft has succeed? (if you say "because they did good product" then you didn't understand computing history)

Still, you are just SHOUTING, SCREAMING that cPanel is the best, bla bla... it doesn't help, we are still in the same loop. You still don't repply to my orriginal post: what are the missing features?

I think for me the biggest gripe I have with alot the free panels/open source software out there is that they all look like they were designed by programmers. They don't give much thought to the actual design and "wow factor" of the product. I know thats not important to making a good stable product but it definately impacts the customer and their feel when they go in there.

I think you never tried any open source control panel to say that. VHCS and DTC have both nice look-and-feel, and cPanel is hugly compared to the last skins for those two. Anyway, you can always make you own skin, that's why templates are there...

Thomas

If you are talking about a game panel. Nice free Windows control panel gamepanel.org. Started FS with it actually, til we moved to Linux.

Go with webmin....

cPanel has a lot of market share because they are good in marketting. Why do you think microsoft has succeed? (if you say "because they did good product" then you didn't understand computing history)

Still, you are just SHOUTING, SCREAMING that cPanel is the best, bla bla... it doesn't help, we are still in the same loop. You still don't repply to my orriginal post: what are the missing features?


Thomas

wrong! marekting have nothing to do with market share. you can believe Microsoft is evil or whatever but their Windows/Office lead the way in the market. it's their cash cow and how do they get there? Not all marketing and hype.

let's see IBM OS/2, Apple Mac didn't beat dethrone Windows on desktop and both Mac and OS/2 were much better than Windows 3.1. Lotus 1 2 3 was the first in spreadsheet and office application market and yet Microsoft kill them.

believe whatever you want but the fact to the matter is cpanel got the market share because it give users what they want. until you accept this fact and give your users what they want. your opensource control panel will not gain much of marketshare.

BTW, if you read my comment i dislike cpanel. i didn't shout or screaming about cpanel. i think it was poorly made but IT GIVE WHAT USERS WANT! Thus they lead in the market. you can shout or screaming all you want about opensource control panel but the market said, No thank. we perfer commerical panel.

NEXT TIME READ OTHER'S COMMENT BEFORE OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND DISS OTHER.

edit: i don't see much cpanel ad but Plesk have heavy marketing and yet cpanel lead in linux panel.

BTW, if you read my comment i dislike cpanel. i didn't shout or screaming about cpanel. i think it was poorly made but IT GIVE WHAT USERS WANT! Thus they lead in the market. you can shout or screaming all you want about opensource control panel but the market said, No thank. we perfer commerical panel.

NEXT TIME READ OTHER'S COMMENT BEFORE OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND DISS OTHER.

edit: i don't see much cpanel ad but Plesk have heavy marketing and yet cpanel lead in linux panel.

I have read other's comment and most just say "cpanel" or "da", which doesn't mean anything. That's why I'm asking more comment to "give users what they want" as you say.

Thomas

GPLHOST, I used that once, but please make it more feasible, I like directadmin and in terms of features cpanel/whm has plenty to offer but expensive.

I will surely use your control panel if it has a good features and a easy installation because certainly all dedicated and colo clients does want to waste the time in installation and hire a admin to help them....

Looking for free control panel .. webmin is a good one...else try directadmin which is a bit cheaper..

You can try DSM Litle from (free version) http://www.zervex.com

or ISPConfig (under BSD license) http://www.ispconfig.org

or VHCS http://www.vhcs.net/new/

or GNU Hosting Helper http://www.hostingsoftware.net/

or Web-CP (GPL) http://www.web-cp.net/

http://www.virtualmin.com standard version
http://www.cubepanel.com/ - limits

gplhost>> free up this "opensource and free blah blah" fact and accept "user knows what he want". Prove? Can you imagine what part of market could cPanel take if the price would be 50$ lifetime? What deterrent most of host is the price... otherwise uh oh :(

Serious companies look for Control Panel which they can get support if things go wrong. at least if they want to look for Open source software, they must have the right staff to play around with it. As Open source developers don't have the resources to offer support to everyone who wants to use their software.

As Open source developers don't have the resources to offer support to everyone who wants to use their software.

Where did you read/hear that? How do you think redhat people earn money?

If you are talking about DTC or VHCS, they both have commercial support. I do get some money with it too (I bet less than cPanel guys that do $100 for one hour of chat, which is my price for having your server repaired by one of GPLHost staffer).

Thomas

The fact is what 100% commercial software is more based on support... more reliable, more developed and so on... Wow, it would be nice to have opensource cPanel... pay only for support? Maybe after 50 years....

If you are talking about DTC or VHCS, they both have commercial support. I do get some money with it too (I bet less than cPanel guys that do $100 for one hour of chat, which is my price for having your server repaired by one of GPLHost staffer).

For commercial software, obviously, if things go wrong, you are guranteed officially there is a profissional company will fix it. For free software, you just get it as it is.

and Again things can't be taken for absolute to be always true!

For commercial software, obviously, if things go wrong, you are guranteed officially there is a profissional company will fix it. For free software, you just get it as it is.

Since when exactly all commercial product are all bug-free? Since when you KNOW that bugs will be removed just because a product has a commercial license?

For free software, at least, if you see a bug, you have the sources and you can do something about it. For commercial products, you can't. If the company dies, you loose the product support, if it's commercial or if it's open source, the problem remains.

Thomas

I've used Web-cp in the past and currently use VHCS. The both do a proper job of a hosting control panel but with less features than cpanel.

VHCS seems to have the most professional looking interface. But if you are looking for good tech support it is helpful if you speak German . :)

Try one of the following...

1. CubePanel (http://www.cubepanel.com) - It can on windows with unlimited time limit and you can host unlimited domains without SSL support.

2. InsPanel (http://www.inspanel.com) - It offers you to host 10 sites with its free license. If you want more, it costs $499.

3. Helm (http://www.webhostingautomation.com) - I'm not sure if they still offer free license, but you can hear most of buzz about this CP here at WHT.

Good Luck.