If you host web applications for clients you know that a reliable web control panel is always a must.  I have received calls at wee hours of the night from clients who needed something that could easily be executed with a simple web control panel and I was kicking myself for being so lazy.

I spent a few days looking for a reliable and even more importantly, affordable web hosting control panel. Unfortunately the free stuff still came at a price (learning curve for unwilling clientele) and the pay stuff was way out of budget.

As any enraged geek, I wrote it myself, here is my masterpiece in action :

This thing ate up so much of my time but I didn’t even care.  The learning curve was huge – especially the DNS administration.  I had to think of new ways to execute administrative tasks from a very limited user.  I had to automate reloading services, span updates of SOA record strings – it was awesome.

The reason I put this whole video / post thing together is that I have a feeling there are others who are / were in my situation.  Now I need feedback and I need to find any insecurities / vulnerabilities so heres what I want to do :

I am putting together a demo server, one you all can play with and try to break – you wont see it for another day or two but it will be here.  I want to offer a full years free hosting to the one who provides the best feedback for this application.

Feedback may include :

• Best Feature Request
• Best Hack / Exploit (do your worst!)
• Stupidest mistake on my behalf

Submissions will be judged by an unbiased third party and we will gladly host the winners stuff for an entire year!

I will post the host / IP as soon as the demo server is complete and I am looking forward to hearing from you.