HC8 Features |
 Cluster
Management |
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| Managing
multiple web-servers is not only a tedious job but
doing it manually also involves long down times.
Taking manual backups are error-prone and rebuild
time is costly for any business sensitive web-server.
Now you can manage any of your servers with just
one interface. HC8 relieves the pain of logging
different servers separately and performing related
management tasks. More over to ensure security,
this cluster distribution is not visible to your
users (Resellers and Web Admins). HC8 is designed
and built as a software system that manages a cluster
of web-servers that exposes a centralized interface
posing as single virtual entity. |
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 NAT
Independent |
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| In
HC8, a cluster can be made independent of the NAT i.e.
you can have a server of the cluster outside the NAT.
Previously in HC6.1, DCOM remote call was limited to the
machines within the NAT IP range because of DCOM limitations.
In .NET based remoting service there is no limitation
like this. In simple words you can get your dedicated
servers from different vendors around the world placed
in different data centers and still have the option to
manage them through single interface in a cluster environment. |
 Centralized
Database |
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| HC8
uses a single centralized database, with reduced redundancy,
improved security measures and easy management reducing
the chances for bugs in the product. This database can
be on MSDE or MS-SQL. |
Cross-Platform Support (Windows and Linux) |
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| With
a rapid expansion in the web hosting industry, provisions
for multiple-platform hosting services are becoming popular
by the day. It is generally seen that what a medium, large
or a growing web host desire for is a solution that can
provide easy management and single interface for hosting
servers running on Windows and Linux. HC8 provides a unique
opportunity to manage hosting servers running on different
platforms through single interface. Hosting Controller
is the only hosting automation tool that supports both
Windows and Linux hosting within a cluster.
HC8 gives its users the freedom to use any operating
system (Windows/Linux) on the servers, with just one
limitation that the control or master server must have
Windows servers installed on it. This provides flexibility
to manage Windows (IIS) and Linux (Apache) web servers
simultaneously through a centralized single interface. |
Improved Error Handling |
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| HC8
comes with improved error handling techniques. It uses
XML log generation at the back end which not only helps
in error handling but also in error tracking. This way,
errors are tracked and fixed with lesser duration of time. |
 Load
Balancing |
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| As
the traffic increases, and as applications are going more
and more complex, system administrators encounter a common
bottleneck: a single server simply can't handle the load.
An obvious way to solve that issue is to use multiple
servers to serve the same content. While most solutions
are expensive and hardware-based, HC8 Load Balancer is
cost-effective, bring production-quality and high performance
into hosting business.
This built-in mechanism balances the user load among
the servers. Currently load balancing in HC8 is based
on the number of users (web admin) i.e. HC8 maintains
the number of web admin nearly at the same level on
each server e.g. if server A has 5 web admins and B
has 6, the next web admin would be created on server
A. However there are provisions in the load balancing
mechanism to enhance it further in future enhancements
i.e. later the load balancing can be based on the amount
of bandwidth, memory or CPU usage. |
 Development
Framework |
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| From
the efficiency and security point of view, all development
of Hosting Controller 7C is done using the latest .NET
framework. It has mature debugging tools which ensure
lesser bugs for the resulting product. It uses most of
the industry standard protocols such as XML, SOAP and
HTTP, thus facilitates distributed application communications
efficiency, ensuring all the security measures. |
 Click
and Install Applications |
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Web
host can now offer variety of PHP & MySQL based applications
to their customers within the hosting package. These are
simple but yet flexible applications which can help you
look and ultimately grow you as professional web hosting
company. By offering these value-added applications, web
host clearly gets a competitive edge over its rivals.
Being a smart solution, you will be able to install/uninstall
any application on any website with a single click through
HC8 panel.
Lots of new Click & Install Apps are included in
HC8 under different categories i-e Blogs, Forums, Ecommerce
Solutions, Customer Support Solutions, Content Management
System, Online Calendar, Site Builder, Web Data Manager
and Photo Gallery.
Here are names of some of these applications: bBlog,
WordPress, HC Forums, PhPBB Forums, Snitz Forums, Comersus,
osCommerce, ZenCart, Crafty Syntax, PHP Support Tickets,
Post Nuke, Xoops, Web Calendar, Mambo, Joomla, phpMyAdmin,
myLittleAdmin Coppermine Photo Gallery, Gallery and
Plogger. |
 Multilingual
Support |
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| Go
global with HC8 as it speaks your language. Only Hosting
Controller offers fully translated language packs at free
of cost. Download any language package you want to offer
and install it on server with a single click selection. |
 Improved
GUI with New Versatile Gadgets |
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| Along
with the competent features and efficient functionality,
HC8 skies in with a cooler and friendlier GUI. With its
popular panel XP theme it now introduces perfectly structured
Cool Tab Skin and convenient Cool Tree Skin, both in groovy
and dandy colors. |
 Complete
Migration of Existing Accounts & Websites |
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Import Existing NT Accounts
Import Existing IIS Websites
Import Existing Site Data
Refer to Host Admin Manual for Details [ Migration
Manual ] |
 Advanced
Billing System & Every Payment Gateway Support |
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For
running a successful business, it is very important that
one must keep track of his customer accounts and their
billing information. Hosting Controller takes another
step further by offering a tightly-couple Billing system
for absolutely FREE, which supports multiple layers of
automated billing. This billing system with enhanced reporting
and tracking ability especially designed for web hosting
companies. The system can automatically keep track of
sold plans, charge customers from their credit cards,
automatically send invoices, maintain billing dates and
determine when to charge. It also has ability to send
automated reminders, suspending websites on non-payment
etc.
HC officially supports seven different payment gateways,
however if you don’t use payment gateway which
we officially support then you can use our Gateway
Open API to integrate your payment gateway with
HC8. |
 Integrated
Trouble Ticketing System |
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| Are
you wasting a lot of time to manage the support emails?
Are you a reseller and always have to email problems to
your host and there is no tracking? The solution is Free
Built-in-Trouble Ticket system in HC8.
Hosting Controller offers your customer an interface from
where they can generate tickets from the panel. Web-admin
generates a ticket to reseller and reseller answers it
accordingly. If required, the ticket can be escalated
to Host. Each reseller has the ability to add/edit/remove
support category. System send email alerts when ticket
is open, updated or closed. |
 Integrated
Message Center |
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| HC8
has integrated message center for host and resellers to
send messages to its customers. |
 Fully
Customizable Auto Sign up System & Parking Pages |
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| Are
you looking for shopping cart software for signing-up
new customers? Have you considered the amount of time
spent in setting the customer accounts? Stop wasting time,
give control to Hosting Controller and start spending
your time in marketing instead! HC8 offers auto sign-up
feature that is 100% customizable and tightly integrated
with domain registrar and your payment processor. It gives
the ability to control and customize all kinds of invoicing
templates, emails, default parking pages, welcome account
setup emails and disk & bandwidth usage emails. |
 Customer
Resource Automatic Quota Checking |
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| HC8
introduces mature quota checking procedures for not only
system resources but also for customer resources. You
can freely add as many customer resources as required
in your plans, without worrying about their quota management. |
 MS
Exchange Server 2007 & 2010 Support |
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HC
Exchange provides a complete messaging system within a
hosting environment that can manage simple or any complex
exchange hosting infrastructure - meaning that all Exchange
roles or services reside on one server, or on cluster
of servers, where exchange server roles are installed
on different machines.
HC Hosted Exchange Module for 2007 & 2010 provides the facility to create and
manage Mail domains, mailboxes, distribution lists,
and public folders in Exchange server 2007 & 2010 as if all
is contained within a single server. Install HC8 on
the exchange server 2007 or 2010 which contains the role of
HUB Transport server (whether Exchange 2007 or 2010 is installed
on single server or in a cluster of multiple servers).
From here on all the exchange 2007 or 2010 roles will be managed
by HC8 ensuring a worry-free exchange hosting service
experience for you.
From HC8 panel, you can create exchange plans,
domains, mailbox accounts (set/define mailbox size,
outgoing/incoming message size, protocol setting, editing
membership, adding/removing aliases, setting permissions
and forwarding etc.). Similarly, each member of domain
will only see distribution lists, public folders etc.
of it own. |
 MS
SharePoint Services Provisioning |
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| To
give you real essence of collaboration and to assure excellence
of information/document sharing, HC8 introduces SharePoint
Server Support. The control panel provides comprehensive
provisioning of SharePoint Sites and Users |
 Blackberry
Enterprise Server(BES) |
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| BlackBerry
Enterprise Solution is a complete wireless platform to
extend the benefits of messaging and collaboration environment
and other tools to mobile professionals. BES is tightly
integrated with HC Exchange 2007 Module. Hosting Controller
8 gives host and reseller the ability to create BB enabled
exchange plans, add/remove exchange users to BB server
with single click. From HC8 interface, you can set activation
password with expiration time and similarly offers ability
to set random password with default expiration time. |
 Microsoft
Dynamics CRM |
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| MS
Dynamics CRM workflow automation & analytics let your
Sales, Marketing and Service staff easily share information
& route tasks to provide a seamless customer experience.
It's the only CRM solution that works inside MS Office
Outlook. Hosting Controller now supports provisioning
of Dynamics CRM and users through its panel. |
 Multiple
Mail Server Support within A Cluster |
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| Earlier
it was not possible to run multiple mail servers in the
same hosting cluster and to manage it, the host required
to setup a different cluster for each mail server but
now with HC8, host can offer both Exchange and other mailing
service running them within the same cluster. |
64-bit OS Support |
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| HC8
offers 64-bit installer to assure competency and flexibility.
A 64 Bit installer ensures improved performance in terms
of speed and memory storage. It makes it a real cutting
edge and high-quality solution. |
 Outlook
Anywhere Support |
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| It’s
an era of being connected all the time. Keeping in view
your needs, HC8 provides Outlook Anywhere Support that
assures round the clock connectivity with your e-mails.
It adds more value and potency to the control panel. |
 Improved
Database Size Control for MS SQL (Both LDF & MDF) |
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| HC8
assures enhanced database size control for MS SQL. It
not only offers improved security measures but also provides
trouble-free management of the databases. |
 Dedicated SSL Support |
| Global Sign is integrated with HC8 which enables web hosts and service providers to offer dedicated SSL certificates with their hosting services and install certificates on their customer's domains throught HC control panel. |
| Don’t have time to install and configure software?
We offer free installation and configuration of HC software.
Send us remote access of your machine and we will do this
for you |
