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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. Re:Yuck by baadger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sure, to us web geeks the functionality demo'd in the screencast just shows how the control panel generates a simple htaccess / web server configuration to keep your code out of your actual public html directory (uses mod_rewrite?) but this is still quite a useful feature to incoporate into a control panel.

    Not everyone wants to deal with .htaccess files or web server config, otherwise they wouldn't be using frameworks like rails or django or control panels like WebFaction to start with. I think the point being made is that organisation of various framework powered websites on a single domain or server has always been a bit of a pain, needing hand crafted attention.

    Oh and since the summary seems to be pretty heavy with the commercial linkage, here's my vote for DirectAdmin which has much more reasonable licensing than CPanel.

  2. What? by timecop · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I want 5 minutes of my life back that I spent watching their "screencast".
    So what does this "control panel" do? Auto-installs blogging software for you?
    Wow, what a progress.
    What about user management, account management, etc etc?
    The dude showed him editing some .html in nano, is that what they expect all users to do?
    This isnt even a "control panel" in any sense of it, its just some GUI installer for blogtrash.

    ISP control panel does a million more things.
    Yawn.

  3. Fantastico replacement by paugq · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd say it's more of a Fantastico replacement than a cPanel or Plesk replacement.

  4. Re:Astroturf? by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But do you need a company that's too cheap to advertise properly and has to plant stories on slashdot *and* get people to astroturf for them?

    Wouldn't touch such a company with a bargepole.