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Hey everyone,

About a year ago I left my job to create a new hosting control panel designed for developers using their own servers/VPSes. I was sick of managing cPanel and Plesk servers and thought there needed to be a control panel made for devs hosting their clients' websites and their own websites, not hosting companies selling cheap shared hosting.

After a year of development, we just launched. Here it is:

https://serverpilot.io/

The general idea is that you grab a new server from a VPS or cloud provider, connect it to ServerPilot with a single command, and that's all you have to do. From then on, you configure new websites and database through our management interface. I was a security researcher so we've put a lot of work into security, including automatic security updates for your server.

I'd love your feedback and feature requests.

Thanks!
Justin
 
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Hello,
as far as i understand control panel will be available not from server, but from your site? Don't you think it is kinda big security threat? what if your server will be hacked- then hacker will gain access to all customers servers? Or what if your control panel will be under massive DDoS?

Idea is quite interesting but i am in doubt if this is secure...

ALso there would be interesting to see some demo or at least screenshots.

Good luck with your project development.
 
Welcome to wjunction.
I'm not a server guy but your software looks interesting and I'm sure some people here on wj will find it useful and some will help with critic.
good luck!
 
Dominatos said:
Hello,
as far as i understand control panel will be available not from server, but from your site? Don't you think it is kinda big security threat? what if your server will be hacked- then hacker will gain access to all customers servers? Or what if your control panel will be under massive DDoS?

Idea is quite interesting but i am in doubt if this is secure...
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Hi, you understood the architecture correctly. The control panel itself is only available from our website. ServerPilot is the first SaaS hosting control panel.

Security is a hugely important issue to us as you might imagine with me having previously been a security researcher. So, we designed our system to not only be highly resilient to compromise but also to mitigate the impact of a compromise. Even if our own servers were fully compromised, the attacker could not get root access to your servers. All code that runs on your servers is signed with our offline signing keys.

We have some more information about our security practices here:

https://serverpilot.io/security.html

All that said, anyone using 3rd party software or services has to trust the provider. Software has security issues. Hosting companies get compromised. Our users have decided that we are worthy of their trust. And, as far as control panel software goes, existing control panels don't have a good track record. It is truly sad how low the bar for security has been set in this industry.

If our control panel is down for any reason, including a DDoS, you'll know that we have a team of people working to make it available again. If you run a traditional control panel on your servers and it goes down (e.g. due to a failed update), it's generally up to you to fix it.

These are all good questions. Overall, we truly believe our users are better off trusting us with our focus on security and careful architecture than other solutions that were built for a different time.

Dominatos said:
Also there would be interesting to see some demo or at least screenshots.
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We should have more screenshots, you're right. For now, we have some videos linked from our documentation:

https://serverpilot.io/community/
 
Looks very promising. Will definitely try this one soon. But, it'd be awesome if you could sell two types of services, one like cpanel and the other - SaaS.
I do like the concept of SaaS, but since there are absolutely no proper alternatives for Cpanel at the moment you should cash in this huge opportunity. Who knows, you might grow bigger than them if your panel is awesome.
 
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Welcome to Wjunction. I think this is the new innovation in control panel era and will be followed by many webmasters in near future excellent creation. Give it a try soon :)
 
Froomple said:
Looks very promising. Will definitely try this one soon. But, it'd be awesome if you could sell two types of services, one like cpanel and the other - SaaS.
I do like the concept of SaaS, but since there are absolutely no proper alternatives for Cpanel at the moment you should cash in this huge opportunity. Who knows, you might grow bigger than them if your panel is awesome.
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We've definitely talked about a self-hosted version but we're not going to pursue it in the near future. We've gotten a great response on the SaaS service we have now and we need to focus our development time on making the SaaS version better.

For the same reason that we only support Ubuntu and PHP right now, and only do website management not DNS or email, we don't plan to stray from our core focus unless it becomes clear it's the right thing to do and the right time to do it. The reason we can create something so perfect for our users is that we aren't trying to meet the needs of the entire market. We'd rather be great for a subset of the market than pretty good for the entire market.

It's also the case that development speed for SaaS software is so much greater than traditional/on-premises software. As a startup, speed is our greatest ally. It's hard to imagine any of the existing control panels will be able to keep up with our rate of innovation over the coming years.
 
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