I must choose (this month) one of Control Panel for my Windows 2000 server!
What I need?
- create client's website : www,ftp,email
- email server : webmail,pop3

I look some CP on WHT :
- Ensim + Mailmax = expensive
- Helm : not yet launching
- Hostingcontroller : too complex

Last week I saw Command Matrix on this WHT , I try their demo : it's simples and surprise : not too expensive ($200 for 50 user)

My questions :
- version 1.04 : too early version!, it's no many bugs inside?
- If appear new version, just I need replace it and everything is ok?

Please help me who already try Command Matrix ver 1.04!... thank you for helping me!

Originally posted by giza

My questions :
- version 1.04 : too early version!, it's no many bugs inside?
- If appear new version, just I need replace it and everything is ok?

Please help me who already try Command Matrix ver 1.04!... thank you for helping me!

Giza,

A few people have been asking this, both here and on their own forums. Unfortunately there's been a pretty poor response to these requests. Arsalan always provides feedback, but he's the only one (that I am aware of) who does that on a regular basis.

I've heard from a couple of users who are quite impressed with it and would recommend it. We're about to install a trial version this weekend but it won't be in a production environment so I'm not sure how useful our tests will be to most users.

If you look at their forum there are very few "Bug & Issues". You can interpret that as:

1. the initial release is pretty damn stable and well written - good job!
2. the initial release is so bad that people have just abandoned it - bad job!
3. very few people are testing it - inconclusive.

It's no help to you, I know, but I also wish that more people who were using it would provide feedback. No CP is perfect, I guess, but in this instance the lack of a decent-sized supported network of users/testers providing feedback means that I will continue to have some doubts about this CP's veracity.

It looks good on paper, the demo works (although we can't actually see it from the perspective of running web sites - I could easily recreate the Demo from a DB backend. Doesn't mean it would actually manage a web site or resellers; it would just save the data to a DB and make it editable), the planned features will be an excellent and welcome addition, but still..............

Lets hope some more users/testers provide some feedback.

Originally posted by giza
I must choose (this month) one of Control Panel for my Windows 2000 server!
What I need?
- create client's website : www,ftp,email
- email server : webmail,pop3

I look some CP on WHT :
- Ensim + Mailmax = expensive
- Helm : not yet launching
- Hostingcontroller : too complex


Have you had a look at H-Sphere (www.psoft.net)? It has the features you require, plus a few more. I have been using it recently and have been quite impressed with it.

Good luck!

you need to check out webservercp.com, its simple but does everything a control panel needs to do and best of all it have very very few bug as compared to HC.

Wait for Helm. It's worth it!!

How much is it, and where is thier site after the 30 days?

PS: If we wait for HELM, it might give us grey hair.....

Gray hair? I doubt it.

Remember Helm is in Beta already. Its a working system now. They are just finishing bits off.

I'm happily going to wait. Its tons better than anything else thats around new and old.

v.true adam.....and give the fact its more stable than the 'new' windows panels out there at this stage....

HELM could have been released in alpha and it would be in the same sort of level most are at ;)

Cheers,

Its definately faster too. Would be dumb if I went for another control panel at this time. Even if Helm is a couple of months away, I'm talking years of my business. I wouldn't sacrifice the huge quality difference for the extra time.

I use Command Martix in a production enviroment. The support is top notch. I highly recommend it.

Good pruduct.

If you have any problems support is right there.

Aaron

Which other ones have bad support?

Originally posted by Adam_S
Which other ones have bad support?

HostingController support is horrible... perhaps just because their product is non sense ...

Who produces helm? Where can I take a look at a preview?

WebHost Automation Ltd

http://www.webhostautomation.com

Hosting Controller is pure trash. It's easy to set up, but you get a random response on what features work each system reboot, and their support is nonexistant. It's also entirely too expensive for what you get.

I've got the demo of command matrix, but have yet to try it out, as it really needs to be installed on a clean system and I don't want to chance messing up the 150+ sites I already have set up. :) But, I intend to install it on a test IIS system this week to check it out.

Helm is entirely too expensive for a small-scale web host, and everytime I go to their site the demo is not available, or errors out. That's not a good sign.

Same thing for Hsphere, too expensive. Honestly, with the costs that you have for running, starting up, or expanding a hosting company, how can you afford $500+ for a control panel? Maybe you've got a small business loan, but I started to make money, not owe even more! :D

Command Matrix has my vote so far through the demo on their site and their affordability. Now, if I can just get my server host issues straightened out so I can make some money to pay for it....

:eek:

Have to remember that the Helm demo is from the developers. Its being modified all the time. I check back all the time to find new stuff they have added from requests in their forum. It does mean its on and off though.

Their beta has proven to be extremely stable. Its more stable than other CPs out there even in its beta and some of the fail safe features it does makes it sound on the larger scale too.

It is more expensive than other CPs, but look how much more it can do for a hosting business, plus there are likely to be licence resellers. I'm guessing that it will around for a lot less than the price you are looking at. It's priced less than what I expected.

$500 for a CP is nothing. I paid more than double that for livestats not long ago! And that doesn't have half the complexity and more importantly the time saving features most CPs has. ;) When my company was starting out I would have happily paid 500 or even justified 1000 dolars for a system that was capable of running my business in the way i wanted it oo. I prefer to spend time working on promoting the company and our services, not managing user accounts and creating POP3 email addresses. The extra time free'd up would easily justify the cost plus a lot more!