Hosting Controller or Hosting Controller Automation Solution is a commercial automation hosting program created by Advanced Communications of

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USA. Development of the program began in 1997.

Overview

Hosting Controller Cloud Automation Solution is a business and operational support system for hosting

service provider A service provider (SP) is an organization that provides services, such as consulting, legal, real estate, communications, storage, and processing services, to other organizations. Although a service provider can be a sub-unit of the organization t ...

s, including shared web hosting for both

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...

and

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. It also supports

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and Enterprise hosting services like

Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server and calendaring server developed by Microsoft. It runs exclusively on Windows Server operating systems. The first version was called Exchange Server 4.0, to position it as the successor to the related ...

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, Active Directory Synchronization and

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Latest release

HC9, released in March 2012, manages different hosting services in both cluster and simple environments. The current build running is 9.12. It provides support for web hosting companies to manage Windows and Linux servers through a unified interface. The major difference in HC8 is the addition of enterprise modules by which Hosting Service Providers (HSPs) can manage and automate enterprise hosting services such as those listed above.

HC Enterprise Modules

HC Enterprise Modules provide interface with programs such as

. The modules currently available for live production are: - Microsoft Exchange 2007
- Microsoft Exchange 2010
-

Microsoft Exchange 2013 Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server and calendaring server developed by Microsoft. It runs exclusively on Windows Server operating systems. The first version was called Exchange Server 4.0, to position it as the successor to the related ...

- SharePoint services
-

Microsoft Lync Server Skype for Business Server (formerly Microsoft Office Communications Server and Microsoft Lync Server) is real-time communications server software that provides the infrastructure for enterprise instant messaging, presence, VoIP, ad hoc and str ...

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales is a customer relationship management software package developed by Microsoft. The current version is Dynamics 365. The name and licensing changed with the update from Dynamics 2016. Release History Microsoft C ...

HCnix

HCnix is a "Linux only" control panel by Hosting Controller and is an independent product.

Add-ons

Hosting Controller supplements its control panel with a number of Add-ons. The supported Add-ons are: - RebuildXpress (RBX)
- One Click Install Applications

Support for other applications

Hosting Controller supports a number of other applications. Supported applications include: - WHMCS
-

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- SpamExperts
- LiteSpeed Web Server
- CloudLinux

Competing software

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 ...

*MachPanel *HELM *

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 ...

*Baifox *

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 ...

*ispCP *

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 ...

*SysCP *

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 ...

References

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External links

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