Control Panel Round Up - Part 2

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1. The major features

• Availability in thirteen international languages including Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Portuguese
• Complete migration of existing accounts and Web sites
• Private labeled hosting for resellers
• Setting credit limits, plan switching, plan add-on or discounts, account termination, renewal, detailed reports, side by side plan shopping.
• A billing system integrated with the plan manager. Some of the features include: every gateway support, multi-currency support - with the ability to add your own currency to system, ability to turn on and off invoicing, prorated invoicing, customizable email reminders when invoice becomes due, ability to manually settle, unsettle, mail, or delete an invoice or payment, automatic account or Web site deactivation on non-payment (configurable), automatic account or Web site activation after payment, automatic credit card charging when invoice becomes due, payment forms for credit card payments, and detailed reports for each level Of admin.
• Name-based and IP-based hosting
• MS FTP and Serv-U FTP support
• Support for nine mail servers
• Support for three DNS servers
• Support for four web statistic servers
• Support for all payment processors
• Support for two domain registrars
• Support for distributed DNS and email
• Support for DNS and mail on Linux
• Complete DNS/mail/IIS/stats automation
• Integrated trouble ticket system
• Customizable auto sign-up
• Disk usage reports and alerts
• Bandwidth usage reports and alerts
• MS-SQL manager
• mySQL manager
• Scripting manager (PHP, Perl, .NET, CF) FrontPage manager
• SSL manager
• COM DLL manager
• Directory manager
• Index server manager
• Windows services manager
• Install on click forum application
• Lifetime 24x7 free support and installation

2. About Hosting Controller

Hosting Controller is a product of Advanced Communication, a Los Angeles-based software development company. Hosting Controller development started in 1997 with the goal of delivering a control panel for Windows-based hosting, then a rarity as UNIX, and its derivatives were considered to be the mainstream hosting OS. Hosting Controller became generally available in the fall of 1997.

3. CP latest technological advancements and improvements

The product is redesigned in XML which is industry standard today. The XML transformation allowed them to translate the control panel if 14+ major languages widely spoken in world.

4. CP major characteristics:

a) Knowledge base
Yes, there is comprehensive knowledgebase and FAQ system available on the website in the support center http://hostingcontroller.com/english/support/support.html

b) Support
The support is provided free. It is available 24x7x365. The support is provided through trouble ticket system, live chat through the option on website, MSN (hostingcontroller@hotmail.com), and ICQ (62950919). Support requests are sometime also entertained on phone (213 341 1419).

c) Online Forum
A very active community based support forum is present at http://forum.hostingcontroller.com/. There the customers help each other as well as the support staff replies both pre/post sale customer queries.

5. Number of customers

At the moment 700+ Web Hosting companies are using the product.

6. CP testimonials

As a host that stresses quality over quantity, which we've found is too rare, hosting controller delivers the stability and power a site needs on NT. We've used many other packages including HELM, and HELM seems to bog down. HController isn't at intuative at first, but once you get past the rough edges its simply better. Its all we install now.
By: http://www.webcs.com/

We have been very satisfied using this product. We find that support has been terrific and over the time we have used this when we think of a feature that may benefit this product HC has always been open to taking suggestions on how to make their product even better than it already is. I can tell you that we have reduced our setup, administration and support time by as much as 30%. This means we can spend more time trying to earn new customers.
By: http://www.fishpick.com/

We have been very satisfied by the complete automation and branding options that Hosting Controller offers our Reseller clients. Our clients could not be as successful with any other control panel on the market today.
By: http://www.resellerchoice.com

Since we installed HC, we hardly have to do any technical support, because the trouble ticket is so brilliant and due to the sheer amount of features you can administer from the HC interface and the online help, we didnt get clients ringing up asking for support half as much as we used to. Over the last year it has probably saved us around £30,000 in employee time alone. Hosting Controller, is the best piece of hosting software on the market. We reccomend it to all our clients.
By: http://www.genesis-hosting.com/

More at: http://hostingcontroller.com/english/survey/index.asp

7. Advantages

The main advantage of Hosting Controller over others is the availability in 14+ languages which makes the customer truly global. This provides him to expand the business beyond the physical boundries by breaking the language barrier. Also, the One year free upgrade and life time FREE support is a distinguished feature.

8. Features link - URL: http://hostingcontroller.com/english/features.html

9. Demo Link - URL: http://www.hostingcontroller.net/english/demo/index.html

10. Price link - URL: http://hostingcontroller.com/english/store.html

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