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Next Step in ISP Control Panels?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pride-in-your-widgets dept.

rdelon writes "Finally there is some movement in the hosting provider control panel department. cPanel and Ensim have been around for years but some people have grown increasingly frustrated with them. WebFaction has developed a new type of control panel. It offers an Ajax web interface that decouples the application from the domain: the root of a website might be served by Ruby on Rails while the /blog URL might be served by WordPress; reciprocally, multiple websites might be served from a single Django application, which reduces the resource usage on the server. A screencast demo of the control panel is available on their blog."

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  1. Yuck by Umbral+Blot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let me try to figure out what that summary is saying. Here we go:
    Some companies provide user friendly interfaces for running web servers.
    WebFaction devloped a "better" user interface (because it uses AJAX?), that can do a bit more

    So what? It doesn't sound revolutionary or innovative in the least. Was this supposed to be in the vendors section, because it certainly sounds like it?

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    Philosophy.
  2. Hmmm by giginger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Surely it's WHAT the control panel does and not HOW it does it? Maybe it's just me who loves features but would happily have it in a plain interface as long as it worked...

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    BIYC Records
  3. Re:Astroturf? by Chainsaw76 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sad part is, it's not even a control panel company, it's a hosting company, who's dedicated servers START at $350/mo. (Celeron 2.0ghz, 120gb drive, 1gb drive, and 1300 gb of data transfer, That'll run ya about $65/mo from other providers so $285/mo markup), and sure they offer shared hosting at $7.50/mo.. but who doesn't?

    -Jason

  4. Re:buzzword bingo by gbjbaanb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, no-one seemed to notice that the panel is not a product available to the public at all. You have to sign up for their services and then you get to use it. Why is this different from, say 1&1 who also have their own custom-developed control panel?

    The product placement of /. does seem to be so prevalent now that it cannot be just accident. What next - a slashdot story about a new herbal drug that will make you sir last longer and have none shame in bed?

  5. Re:Astroturf? by Elliot+Anderson · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know what your link to WebFaction is, but it really doesn't help your credibity when you praise a company thats astroturfing while having it as your profile url...