What do you want from ZPanel? - Discuss features you want to see in ZPanel!

[ballen]

Hey all,

I just wanted to get an idea from the community as to how you want us to use our 'spare time' on the ZPanel project?

I know there are probably a whole load of things you want to be added into ZPanel but what would be your top priority... please post below maybe you want...

a) Better concise documentation
b) More 'supported' OS installers
c) A particular new feature
d) A particular annoying bug to be fixed

Please post up your wish list as I'll be reading this list shortly and trying to get as many into the next release.

Cheers,
Bobby

[tgates]

Billing system There is a lot of documentation, just not everybody bothers to read it BEFORE they install, or pay attention to documentation during install, then run into problems.

[webby]

I would love to see the ability like you get in cpanel to have you user raw access logs backed up for 1 month split into 1 week seguiments for each domain. The one week backup with be a combined backup of all domains for that user account and accessed for that user via the zpanel control panel. This is useful as some affiliate companies require the raw access logs for a audit of there affiliates earnings. A good example of one affiliate company is EbayPartnerNetwork.

Also a working ftp/ownership so users can delete/rename etc files for wordpress ect and for it to work with centos. That bug is holding me back from using Zpanelx on my vps (which I might cancel until the zpanel update is released.)

Maybe an intergration of a piwik style tracking script on users zpanel control panel to monitor site visitors etc

Intergration of CSF firewall with there GUI for a strong firewall for admins only.

Other than those I cannot think of anything else personally.
Thanks
Webby
UK

[Ramonsmit125]

If it's possible, Full ssl suport

[Schmarvin]

Billing system There is a lot of documentation, just not everybody bothers to read it BEFORE they install, or pay attention to documentation during install, then run into problems.

Not only that, I tried developing a module for Blesta, its very difficult. There should be a better set standard of code, more-so, like an API for developers, not just hooks or commands that can be used. I noticed they are unsecure because zPanel also does not fully support SSL. So, a better developer environment would be great.

I would love to see the ability like you get in cpanel to have you user raw access logs backed up for 1 month split into 1 week seguiments for each domain. The one week backup with be a combined backup of all domains for that user account and accessed for that user via the zpanel control panel. This is useful as some affiliate companies require the raw access logs for a audit of there affiliates earnings. A good example of one affiliate company is EbayPartnerNetwork.

Also a working ftp/ownership so users can delete/rename etc files for wordpress ect and for it to work with centos. That bug is holding me back from using Zpanelx on my vps (which I might cancel until the zpanel update is released.)

Maybe an intergration of a piwik style tracking script on users zpanel control panel to monitor site visitors etc

Intergration of CSF firewall with there GUI for a strong firewall for admins only.

Other than those I cannot think of anything else personally.
Thanks
Webby
UK

In addition to these idea, maybe user separated features, like mysql users and ftp accounts?
At this point in time, ZPanel is not a multi-user friendly system.

You must create a very unique ftp account or ftp user. The only thing set already is the mysql database.
The system should automatically put username_ before created objects for better security and to monitor who owns what.

[baldman]

I know there is lots more important things like billing systems and bug fixes but an Ajaxplorer module would pretty cool!... http://ajaxplorer.info

I've only been using Zpanel for about 2 weeks so I hope this hasn't already been though of!... Billing system first tho, that would be great!

[ballen]

Ok cheers guys, I'll take all these suggestions into consideration!

[robbt]

There are a number of small things I'd like to change in Zpanel running on Ubuntu 12.04. I've noticed that e-mail addresses can't also be aliased to forward to other accounts, whereas this would be easy enough to manage within the Postfix virtual domains set-up. Also if there isn't a mailbox set-up than mail gets bounced from the domain even if a distribution list is set-up. I guess it seems like a odd limitation that distribution lists/mailboxes or aliases are exclusive. This makes it harder to integrate mailman, which I haven't figured out how to do but was able to do with the workaround.org dovecot/postfix/mysql set-up I had previously. SpamAsssassin integration and/or Postgrey are essential for preventing the spam buildup that is pretty common. Also setting up Sieve message filtering. I plan on doing all of these for my server and I'd like to contribute the code/set-up howto back to the community if people are interested and I can figure out how to. Also it'd be good if dovecot was enabled for SSL, but I guess the real issue with SSL is certificates for each domain and needing an IP for each domain, although I think there are some new set-ups that don't require IPs for each SSL domain.

Zpanel is a pretty great control panel. The only other glitch I've noticed is that unless I set-up the mysql user to connect only to localhost they aren't able to connect to the database with the any setting. I think it may be simply a Ubuntu 12.04 setup glitch but that workaround worked, so setting localhost to be a default setting would make sense to me as well. Anyways, just wanted to chime in with some of the issues/thoughts I've
had. Thanks for creating such a robust and open panel.

[Bradyhawke]

Billing system There is a lot of documentation, just not everybody bothers to read it BEFORE they install, or pay attention to documentation during install, then run into problems.

I would love a complete billing / ticket system myself. I know a few people on here have their own personal setups, but something that is integrated with ZPX for billing & customer support would totally rock. I'm not charging my "clients" right now (mainly just relatives and friends), but I do see myself heading in the direction of offering backup/storage & hosting services.

Now that I put some more thought into it (yes, I started typing before thinking, bite me...) I remember the discussion of a VPS platform for ZPanel? Is that something that would be integrated into the control panel or would it be a completely separate type of control panel? I think if it could be integrated, then I'd love to see VPS hosting capabilities - if it can't then leave that puppy alone and work on a billing / ticket system...

Also, I would be very interested in the "ZNAS" project discussed in this thread: http://forums.zpanelcp.com/showthread.php?7255-Znas

[arnada]

I think this features would be awsome not to build just to include / bridge

1) Invoice system / Billing system like simple invoices
2) one click installers for the most popular PHP/MYSQL softwares out there (WP, Joomla and so on)
3) gaming feauters, host HLDS, SRCDS, Minecraft and some other games that never dies

And these bugs drives me crazy

1) Webmail, after changing port to 2525 I can't send mail with roundcube (have change SMTP port in php.ini and roundcube config file)
2) FAQ, Well I know I don't type that well but I can't save my FAQ's =)


Good luck and thanks for a great panel and great support on this forum!!