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Kloxo Control Panel

A customer recently mentioned Kloxo to us and I thought it might be worth a quick post. This is a (currently) free open source Control Panel for CentOS and RHEL 5.

More details on the Kloxo website.

Posted by Andy Gambles 

Comments (2)

Jul 30, 2010
Richard Lloyd said...
Surprising they've developed on 32-bit CentOS 5 when surely most shared CentOS hosting will be on a 64-bit platform (e.g. would be using > 4GB RAM)! One thing I think hosting control panels are missing is the concept of central administration (i.e. one place where all hosting/domain/platfrom info is stored and this is queried from multiple servers, each running a control panel) and migration (e.g. a site might want to move from Linux to Windows or vice versa or you might want to migrate all sites off one server so you can do systems maintainence on that server). I do think that a control panel needs to be available on both Windows and Linux and be "migratable" like I mentioned - a hosting company needs a single hosting database for billing etc. purposes but none of the control panels I've seen ever consider multiple server+control panels talking back to such a DB setup (yes, the DB server would have to have an admin interface too - but it could be run on one of the "client" servers if machines are at a premium).
Jul 30, 2010
Andy Gambles said...
Very good points. This was the way Helm was going until it sold out to Parallels. They may do something similar but from what I have heard they are still working on the single server premise. H-sphere does what you said but again this is now in the hands of Parallels so that could all change.

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