Control panel demo
Updated Feb 19 at 05:37 CDT (first posted Jun 21 at 03:41 CDT) by Remi in General, Python, Rails, Screencast - 22 comment(s)
We believe our home-grown control panel to be one of the most flexible and powerful out there. In a few clicks you can:
- Access our support system and search our knowledge base
- Manage your domains, emails, databases, contacts, services, tickets and more
- Create applications such as Rails, Wordpress, Django, TurboGears and more (using the exact version you want)
- Mix and match your applications with your domain(s)/URL(s)
- All the changes happen in real time
We've just released a screencast demo of our control panel. The demo demonstrates how to setup a Rails, WordPress, Django and TurboGears site in a few clicks. It then shows how to ssh into the server and make changes to your sites.
22 comments:
dijoje said on 2006-06-21 15:56:37:
The control panel looks very nice. How did you programm it (python, ruby or ...), so did you use agile web development (rails, django, tg)?
Remi said on 2006-06-22 04:23:01:
Here is an answer to the comments so far:> How did you programm it (python, ruby or ...), so
> did you use agile web development (rails, django, tg)
It is written in Python and CherryPy.
> Linux users have Flash but only version 7
I just added a QuickTime version of the screencast.
> mydomain.com is owned by someone else
For the purpose of this demo we just put that domain in our /etc/hosts file and voila :)
Remi.
Jon Stahl said on 2006-06-24 18:02:03:
This is really excellent. It would be cool if a future version of the screencast showed the installation of Zope + Plone, or if they at least showed in the drop-down menu of installable apps. ;-)
Remi said on 2006-06-29 00:39:55:
Another update:- This is not the place for a flamewar about open vs non-open video codecs so I've removed the comments about that.
- I added a Ogg Theora (open codec) version of the video.
> It would be cool if a future version of the screencast showed the installation of Zope + Plone, or if they at least showed in the drop-down menu of installable apps
Well, Zope is indeed in the list of apps, but the drop-down menu happens to be truncated in the screencast so we don't see Zope (which is at the bottom of the list ...).
> Which plan does the demo account run on ?
The demo account has a "Shared 4" plan, which is needed because it runs 3 long-running processes (Rails, Django and TurboGears). WordPress doesn't require a long-running process because it's a PHP app.
Frank said on 2006-07-04 04:53:49:
As you are big open source fans, do you plan to release this software to the community?
Planet Malaysia said on 2006-07-04 05:59:23:
Just wonder is the real control panel as fast as demo?
JanC said on 2006-07-04 06:44:01:
Remi, about the person complaining about the existing domain, see RFC-2606 for the domains and TLDs that are reserved for example- & testing-purposes. Might be useful next time... ;-)PS: it would be nice if the characters used in your captcha system would be actually distinguishable so that people don't have to guess 5 times before they get it right. :-(
John Jones said on 2006-07-04 07:01:25:
When is this going to be released so that I can hack on it ?if you can not download the source and install on my server then it will just become like the other "control pannels" out there...
maybe keep some modules closed that you can sell i.e. tomcat and such
MikeK said on 2006-07-04 07:06:58:
Do you have reseller support? And does it have CPanel/Interworx like features that allow control over the server environment?
Remi said on 2006-07-04 10:16:28:
Here is an answer to some new comments:- JanC: Thanks for the tip. And I'll try to find a better font for our captcha :)
> As you are big open source fans, do you plan to release
> this software to the community
The framework that the control panel runs on (CherryPy - http://www.cherrypy.org) is open-source and we're contributing to it. But the application itself is unlikely to be released as open-source because it is very specific to our setup.
> Just wonder is the real control panel as fast as demo?
Yes it is. The only thing is that after you change your websites configuration you sometimes have to wait for one or two minutes for the change to take effect, which you don't see in the demo.
> Do you have reseller support?
Just to make things clear: we're not selling the software itself ... We developed it in-house, for our users only.
If you're talking about a reseller account for our hosting services, we don't have one yet but we'll probably offer one in the future.
Remi.
Frank said on 2006-07-04 10:32:55:
Remi,Let me know when you release the software (open source or commericial). Very nice things you did!
Frank
TMR said on 2006-07-04 11:21:15:
I would have loved to see the billing section in action, that's lacking from the demo I guess. Were Plesk users but being Rails devloppers, this thing looks fantastic.
CLAY SHENTRUP said on 2006-07-04 15:33:04:
Not trying to "flame" at all, but I just want to say that it's awesome that you included theora! Thanks.
dearth said on 2006-07-04 21:10:10:
Holy cow! If you were able to encapsulate that into a package that could be sold to other hosting services, you'd make a killing. I would even buy it for this setup here...
dtonebone said on 2006-07-04 23:53:20:
Im with Dearth, any chance of getting this package to market as a general provisioning frontend for isp/asps?
ghenry said on 2006-07-05 02:20:49:
Did you consider using Catalyst and Dojo?
Howard said on 2006-07-05 08:55:19:
A brilliant approach to configuration that will serve your organization and and your clients extremely well. As a side note, what application did you use to capture the demo - very nice.
bignose said on 2006-07-24 19:47:27:
Thanks for the Ogg Theora video of the demo. I hope you can offer this format for your future demos also.
Ian said on 2006-10-03 09:51:30:
Big up for the ogg video
cotty said on 2007-03-01 03:43:15:
Nice site man! Good resources here, I will bookmark! Yes The framework that the control panel runs on is open-source and we're contributing to it
Rahul said on 2007-03-22 07:16:01:
Gud One
this site is very important and i had many help from it so try to keep it up :-)