does anybody know how to build a webbased control panel like cpanel or plesk because i would relly like to know how to make one

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i am not sure it will help you or not.

cPanel & WebHost Manager (WHM) is a next generation web hosting control panel system.

Token from http://cpanel.net you can go to that site for getting information.if you build by yourself i think it will be hard.

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Besides cPanel, there are other alternatives include Absolute Control Panel XE and InsPanel.

Absolute Control Panel XE
http://www.xigla.com/absolutecp/

InsPanel
http://www.inspediumsoft.com/

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i just thought it would be fun to have a go at building a webbased control panel like cpanel or whm it would give me something to do when i board then i cud keep uploading and testing it

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its pretty easy once you now abit of php, mysql and you have alot of experience with php..

But I don't, I know friends who do and have already. But its hard, they finisihed in 3 months.

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There are free (I think open source) ones like "zPanel"

http://www.thezpanel.com

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I have a discussion on ZPanel somewhere on this forum (I'll add the link later). ZPanel is not open source, and it isn't as good as cPanel or Plesk or any similar product. If I were to set up a machine for shared hosting I would pick InsPanel (http://www.inspediumsoft.com/inspanel.php) for now (but if cPanel is ever out for Windows, I would definitely take it instead).
Edit: Here's the link to my topic on ZPanel: http://www.trap17.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=31384&hl=

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its going really well guys im building it for a windoiws server so its a lot easier it will have an online RDC (Remote Desktop Conection) and you will ber able to install loads of scrips and things the programming is done in c++ vb MySQL and ASP buit it also has php pages as well.

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This sounds cool, but I really wonder if one can really rely on such free web based managers. These days most of the hosting sites are using Cpanel and Web Host Manager and these two are the best as far as my knowledge is concerned. There are too many things to do on the net and I really think it is a waste of time to build such. Unless we want to make business and become a rival to these already popular webhost managers.

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here's some tips:
if you have a CMS, you don't really need one
unless you are experienced in programing in many languages, you can't make one

there are good ones out there that are free...
I assume you use linux on your server since you mentioned Cpanel. Webmin is a good one, cube panel is another, there are also VNC programs that let you do that. There are a lot of things you can do.

It may be cool, but you can't use it on this host. you need to have a computer, and some kind of web site program running. You also need a static IP address from your ISP. So really, I would just suggest getting paid hosting, it's really pricey.

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