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Darknight
October 14th, 2009, 23:35
http://ehcp.net Easy Hosting Control Panel.
One of the easiest and most useful iv seen so far, installing it in Ubuntu 9.04 is so easy any one could do it.
Anyone else tried this?
JJW
October 15th, 2009, 09:49
problem it only runs on debian also there is no billing software that works with it. I had some issues with dns and the software.
Darknight
October 15th, 2009, 17:03
it's meant to only work on Debian that's what it was created for after all.
dns works fine.
Matt - Kerplunc
January 2nd, 2010, 18:30
Looks pretty good! Might give it a try
CS Squad
January 2nd, 2010, 22:20
for debian use, i suggest to go for VHCS2
it is not bad.
:)
fons1989
January 3rd, 2010, 03:17
I am trying to get my team sponsor also I am wondering how can I get a web site with a control panel .The site is just for my team with a forum so people can post is their someone that can build it for me send me a email at fonsyv@yahoo.com thanks guys
CS Squad
January 3rd, 2010, 16:18
I am trying to get my team sponsor also I am wondering how can I get a web site with a control panel .The site is just for my team with a forum so people can post is their someone that can build it for me send me a email at fonsyv@yahoo.com thanks guys

i dun really understand wat u trying to say.
however, if u r asking about how to request for a free hosting account, u can start a request thread at "Free hosting requests "
SiberForum
January 4th, 2010, 06:43
It seems he is talking about the sponsor account. I suppose that is diffrent then just free web hosting account ;).
CS Squad
January 4th, 2010, 16:41
It seems he is talking about the sponsor account. I suppose that is diffrent then just free web hosting account ;).

as i remember, request for account sponsoring is also falls to that category...
JohnN
January 5th, 2010, 18:52
I'm looking through the ehcp code, the shell script is actually pretty solid, but the php needs some work.

Theres also some python, which seems to be pretty well done. It's just this is a bit of a mish mash, and since it appears to have a php base, it's not going to be wildly quick.

Not wanting to trash their work, it's one hell of an undertaking, and theres a lot to like
crazypenguin
January 9th, 2010, 06:21
Have you checked out GNUPanel (http://gnupanel.org/)? It was designed to run on Debian and Ubuntu.
CS Squad
January 10th, 2010, 04:58
GNUPanel lacks of a lot things,
the developer team is not that active too.
WebIntellects-R
January 13th, 2010, 03:03
As long as they are free you can create subdomain and test them. Then use the one you liked
XH-Alfred
January 19th, 2010, 03:41
As long as they are free you can create subdomain and test them. Then use the one you liked

Hah! Agreed!
~ServerPoint~
January 19th, 2010, 06:34
Check out hotscripts collection. A lot of good scripts are present there.
ExpertWebHost
January 30th, 2010, 06:23
There are many good free control panels available. Unfortunately, none of them are even comparable with CPanel.. :(
stuffradio
January 30th, 2010, 19:59
There are many good free control panels available. Unfortunately, none of them are even comparable with CPanel.. :(

That usually is the case with paid compared to free software. It's not always the case though... it depends on the category of software, for hosting panels I can think of a few free ones that are good.
Schmarvin
January 31st, 2010, 19:47
There are many good free control panels available. Unfortunately, none of them are even comparable with CPanel.. :(

A few points in which cPanel lacks:


Resource optimization; You actually have to optimize the VPS version to work with low-end VPS. With Direct Admin, you don't really need to. You can run DA on 384MB of RAM out of the box. cPanel must be optimized to run on 512MB, or if you know what your doing you can haggle it down to 384MB.
Security; cPanel hosts get hacked most of the time. You rarely hear of DA hosts being hacked. Now, this may be due to cPanel being the most common panel. But, if that is the case, wouldn't there be more emphasis on security?
Back-end features; cPanel is only nice and pretty for the common user. If you are managing the backend (not necessarily WHM), it is a bit difficult to manage your server settings. Apache building is long and tedious inside WHM.
3rd Party; I don't see many 3rd party plug-ins for cPanel. I see more mods and development for DA. I find this odd considering cPanel is still one of the most common panels.
Price; DA still beats cPanel's price by a long shot.

Feel free to counter these points above.