Features and Roadmap

Services offered

OpenPanel offers all basic hosting services for setting up domains, including DNS, email, websites and databases. A layered authentication system allows the administrator to create accounts with specified limitations for end-users. All of the system’s users are able to control system configuration using either an intuitive graphical interface or a powerful command line configuration shell.

OpenPanel currently supports the following services:

1.1 (current)

On July 8^th 2011 we released OpenPanel 1.1.

• Spam assassin
• SSL certificate management for vhosts
• Full IPv6 support
• Powerful command line interface
• Attractive GUI
• Apache2 virtual hosts
• OpenSSH user access
• BIND9 DNS zones
• Postfix and Courier-IMAP hosted mail domains
• PureFTPd chrooted ftp-accounts
• MySQL databases and user accounts
• IPTables firewall configuration
• Software updates through apt
• Support for other Debian-based distributions(note that most features already work on these platforms)
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid”
  • Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick”
  • Debian 6 “Squeeze”

1.2 and later

• Support for RHEL and CentOS
• AWStats
• PAM-based authentication
• Amavis
• IP address management
• WebDAV support
• Bandwidth Quota
• Bandwidth Throttling

Version 2

A more detailed breakdown into 2.0, 2.1 and later will be made when we start working on this version

• Full reseller functionality
• Object templating
• Object backups
• Apache features
  • Support for mod_perl
  • Support for mod_passenger
  • Support for wsgi
  • Support for FastCGI
  • Privilege separation in Apache
• Managing N2
• Mailinglist support
• Managing PostgreSQL

Version 3

A more detailed breakdown into 3.0, 3.1 and later will be made when we start working on this version

• Load balancing (syncing OpenPanel configuration over different instances)
• Branding (either globally or per-domain or per-owner)
• Apache access/error logs browsable and downloadable in interface
• Billing
• SuSe support
• 1 management server with many “slave” servers
• Pre-install webapps in vhosts
• Internationalization and localization
• .htaccess management

Far future

Features we are considering, but which are not yet planned include:

• Support for non-linux operating systems
  • Microsoft Windows
  • OpenBSD
  • FreeBSD
• Webalizer
• Full APT/YUM control
• Automatic conversion for existing installations.
• Support for alternative daemons, including
  • Exim
  • Sendmail
  • Lighthttpd
  • WuFTP
  • ProFTP