The Web and Microsoft - DotNetPanel Open Sourced as WebSitePanel!
“On yesterday SMB SAAS Systems makers of DotNetPanel Announced that they would be revising the DotNetPanel codebase and releasing as WebsitePanel as an open source project available on Source Forge.
This will be huge for hosting providers and server admins looking to provide a low cost Control Panel alternative …”
“WebsitePanel is an easy to use control panel for Windows hosting. It allows you to manage multiple servers, it has a robust, scalable and secure architecture.
With WebsitePanel you can easily manage all your web sites, FTP accounts, databases and other resources from a single place.
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WebsitePanel highlights:
- It's an open source project under BSD license
- Built exclusively for Windows platform
- True multi-server architecture
- Huge list of supported software
- Tight integration with Microsoft Web App Gallery
- Easy to install and use
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SourceForge – WebsitePanel – Files
Cool! I don’t know if I’ve seen an broad/feature complete web control panel of this scope priced so well, nor one OSS’ed.
There’s a tone of code here to spelunk too if you’re interested. :)
Many of our customrs asked about "why" DotNetPanel went open source and what the impacts would be to the hosting industry and to other control panels. This post offers some answers:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.smartertools.com/blog/archive/2010/04/29/dotnetpanel-why-open-source-and-why-now.aspx
Be well,