Control panels are an extremely important aspect of web hosting accounts because they give the webmaster complete control over all of their site’s administrative functions. By providing a single control panel for all your users it becomes much easier to manage your customer base. There's no need to log into multiple locations to manage your users as every account is accessible from your administrators login, even if your customers sites are setup on remote servers.
Parallels Helm is a Microsoft windows control panel solution, empowering hosting providers to control, automate and sell virtually any product or service Helm is a great control panel - it is a good one with Windows and the interface is easy to get to grips with,
BlueOnyx is a Linux distribution (based on CentOS v5.5) which aims at delivering a turnkey server appliance for webhosting. It comes with a web based GUI interface which allows you (and your email, FTP and webhosting clients!) to manage most aspects of the server, its sites and accounts through a browser based interface. It is open source software, released under a Sun modified BSD license.
BlueOnyx is a modernized fork of BlueQuartz and has been developed by Solarspeed.net and NuOnce Networks, Inc. and A lot of improvements and enhancements (compared to a regular BlueQuartz) went into BlueOnyx. Including support for Java Servlet Pages, built in web based email, phpMyAdmin for you and your webhosting clients and provisions to automatically create MySQL databases and users for each virtual site.
For CPanels, All India On-Line uses both Helm and BlueOnyx for its ASP, .Net Applications and PHP applications respectively. |
