Domain Technologie Control (DTC) is a
web hosting control panel
A web hosting control panel is a web-based interface provided by a web hosting service that allows users to manage their servers and hosted services.
Web hosting control panels usually include the following modules:
* Web server (e.g. Apache HTT ...
aimed at providing a graphics-oriented layout for managing commercial hosting of
web servers
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, intended for
shared web hosting servers,
virtual private server
A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual machine sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. The virtual dedicated server (VDS) also has a similar meaning.
A virtual private server runs its own copy of an operating system (OS), and cus ...
s (VPSes), and
dedicated servers
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. Domain Technologie Control is
free software
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released under the
GNU LGPL v2.1 license. It is fully
skinnable and translated into several languages.
Domain Technologie Control allows the administrator to create
web hosting plans that provide
email
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and
FTP
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accounts, domain purchasing, subdomains,
SSH
The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Its most notable applications are remote login and command-line execution.
SSH applications are based on a ...
, and
MySQL
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databases to the end users under controllable
quota
Quota may refer to:
Economics
* Import quota, a trade restriction on the quantity of goods imported into a country
* Market Sharing Quota, an economic system used in Canadian agriculture
* Milk quota, a quota on milk production in Europe
* Indi ...
for the web sites that these users own. DTC also maintains the automation of
billing, generates backup scripts, and monitors traffic (per user and per service) using a single system,
UID or
GID. Also integrated into DTC are the support ticket system and customizable
HTTP error pages.
DTC itself manages its own MySQL database to store its setup configuration, web hosting plans, and users. It has support for many other free software:
MySQL
MySQL () is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language. A relational database o ...
,
Apache
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,
PHP
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,
qmail
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,
Postfix,
Courier
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,
Dovecot, ProFTPd,
Webalizer
The Webalizer is web log analysis software, which generates web pages of analysis, from access and usage logs. It is one of the most commonly used web server administration tools. It was initiated by Bradford L. Barrett in 1997. Statistics common ...
,
mod-log-sql, and more. It also connects to dtc-xen to manage and monitor the usage of Virtual Private Servers (VPS).
DTC is fully open source (LGPL). DTC is also the first web hosting control panel that has reached inclusion in major distributions like Debian (since Lenny in 2009), Ubuntu (since 2008) and FreeBSD.
See also
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AlternC
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cPanel
cPanel is a web hosting control panel software developed by cPanel, LLC. It provides a graphical interface (GUI) and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site to the website owner or the "end user". It enables admin ...
*
DirectAdmin
DirectAdmin is a graphical web-based web hosting control panel allowing administration of websites through a web browser. The software is configurable to enable standalone, reseller, and shared web hosting from a single instance. DirectAdmin also ...
*
Froxlor
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Hosting Controller
Hosting Controller or Hosting Controller Automation Solution is a commercial automation hosting program created by Advanced Communications of Los Angeles, California USA. Development of the program began in 1997.
Overview
Hosting Controller Clo ...
*
ISPConfig
ISPConfig is a widely used open source hosting control panel for Linux, licensed under BSD license and developed by the company ISPConfig UG. The ISPConfig project was started in autumn 2005 by Till Brehm from the German company projektfarm GmbH.
...
*
Kloxo
Kloxo (formerly known as Lxadmin) was a free and open-source web hosting control panel for the Red Hat and CentOS Linux distributions. As of October 2017, the project has been unmaintained with a number of unresolved issues, and the project's webs ...
*
Plesk
Plesk is a commercial web hosting and server data center automation software developed for Linux and Windows-based retail hosting service providers.
It was developed by Plesk International GmbH, with headquarters in Toronto, Canada and Schaf ...
*
Virtualmin
Virtualmin is a domain hosting and website control panel which gives the ability to create and manage many domains, as well as simplify both automation and tasks. It is based on Webmin. Virtualmin is an alternative to cPanel and Plesk.
General ...
*
Webmin
Webmin is a powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel for Unix-like systems. Webmin allows the user to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services or configuration files, as well as modify an ...
Footnotes and References
External links
*http://www.gplhost.com/about-us/our-gpl-software/dtc-domain-technologie-control.html
Unix Internet software
Web server management software
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