Vancouver, Canada – April 25, 2013 – We would like to inform our customers that Hosting Controller version 9.0 build 5 is now available which also supports Microsoft Lync 2013 & Microsoft SharePoint 2013. There are many other new features and enhancements in this release. All existing customers with valid "Standard Support & Upgrade Protection" may download latest build from: http://hostingcontroller.com/Hosting-Software-Downloads/HC-Service-Packs.html 

This latest release provides various new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Visit Help Center to check complete Release Notes for latest build.

Hosting Controller is a unified control panel and an automation solution for service providers offering Microsoft Enterprise Applications such as Exchange, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Lync and Hyper-V in a shared multi-tenant environment and comes with a comprehensive self-serve portal for the end customers.

About Hosting Controller

Founded in 1999 and pioneer in Windows Hosting Automation, Hosting Controller is a cloud hosting automation solution for web hosts and cloud based service providers. It allows them to manage both Windows & Linux servers simultaneously as part of a single cluster. In addition to shared hosts, Hosting Controller offers a full solution suite for hosted Enterprise Applications creating a shared multi-tenant environment for automatic provisioning of Microsoft Exchange, BlackBerry, SharePoint, Lync and Dynamics CRM. It also offers a full automation solution for Infrastructure and Virtualization providers offering virtualized partitions on both Windows and Linux based servers through VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V & Xen Hypervisor! Hosting Controller Inc. is based in Richmond, BC, Canada and has customers in 125 countries worldwide.

For more information about Hosting Controller Inc. visit http://hostingcontroller.com or call +1 (604) 227-0272.

So been awhile since I have been on the forum but I need help and feedback outside of the HC support.
 
We have been running secondary Linux server as part of a cluster on the current HC  ver and are having issues in regards to email on this server. We currently have sendmail and have the following issues.
 
1) Sendmail will not accept sending outbound smtp with authentication with the users U/P. HC told us to use pop before smtp which back several years ago this was not an issue but as we get more user they want to configure their Iphone/Android, etc. and since none of the devices support pop before smtp they can't get it to work.  So when asking HC support recently  I got the normal did you install sendmail? WHAT? So I saw where this is going.
 
Pop before smtp has/is functioning with email clients but I have even seen the random issue where it does not work, just sends back error unable to reply sometimes and does not matter which version of Outlook you use.
 
2) IMAP to the mailbox. If we test Outlook against our Linux server and it destroys the mailbox. When you first open Outlook it will display the emails but when you try and open an email comes back saying that it disconnected and will not display anything anymore. Going back in via squirrelmail it tells me that the mailbox is corrupt. Opening the mailbox in an text editor it shows a couple of lines of html code and then is it cut off. Delete the mailbox file and then it is good through webmail and pop/smtp. So it looks like IMAP is out of the question.
 
3)At random a users will start getting the same emails over and over and over coming into the mailbox. The only way we have been able to stop and correct the issue is to completely delete the mailbox. After a couple of times of this happening we have lost the customer. HC says this is sendmail issue and that you have to address the issue. I have even contracted someone outside to look at the issue and they gave up since HC is using their own shadow and password files(non-standard config I was told) .
 
HC said to use Postfix "Because it is easier to configure" that did not answer the question on what to do so I am back at square one.
 
General questions to the Forum.
 
1) Do you use sendmail or Postfix?
2) Can you smtp with authentication off the users U/P?
3) Can you share how you did this?
4) Anyone been able to get a option to change the email password via the webmail?

Hello everyone
When I try to disable or enable FrontPage ext. I get the following error:Starting check, port: 80, web: "/"Error 2 opening registry key "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\Ports\Port "
Thanks
Mark

Vancouver, Canada – February 19, 2013 - Hosting Controller releases HCnix version 2 build 2 (Linux only control panel ). This latest update provides support for Drupal CMS, Shared SSL and integrated Help Desk trouble ticket system. All existing customers with valid "Standard Support & Upgrade Protection" may download latest build from: http://hostingcontroller.com/Hosting-Software-Downloads/HC-Service-Packs.html under HCnix tab.

Visit  Help Center to check complete Release Notes for latest version.

About HCnix Control Panel

HCnix is a Linux based web hosting automation control panel which facilitates web hosts to manage multiple Web, Mail, Database and DNS servers on different GNU/Linux flavors in cluster through single interface. It is specifically designed to be used in a distributed server environment as an independent control panel.
 
HCnix is bundled with set of third party applications including blogs, content management system, Ecommerce solutions, forums, website builder, photo gallery and web data manager which are installable and configurable on per website basis with the click of mouse. Web hosts and their customers can create and manage websites, mail domains, email users, ftp accounts, DNS, website statistics, databases, scripting permissions etc.

For more information about Hosting Controller Inc. visit http://hostingcontroller.com or call +1 (604) 227-0272.

I'm sorry if I am posting my concern in this section. It just that  I don't know where should I post my concern about your web administration demo. I was in your download page looking for online demo on web admin until I saw your web admin demo. So I view the page and it seems that I have to sign up first. I'm confused somewhat. I want to ask why registration is needed if all I'm looking is demo on web admin? Second, does a demo is totally free or has a fee afterwards?

Hello
I would like to have accounts on Win 7 added to a group that provides sufficient rights to log into ftp. It would be also great to move them to a OU called web_admins. Where can I modify this information?
 
 

It has been about a year since HC made the decision to change the directory structure for accounts.  This was discussed at length in the HC Roadmap thread elsewhere on this forum.  As part of that discussion, some technical reasons were posted as to why this change was necessary.

Following feature requested by our customers very frequently
Reseller within Reseller
Rename control panel user
Instant website transfer between users
Transfer website with zero down time
Customer running mail only hosting or virtualization they no need to enable web IIS role in cluster

 
In looking at this list, have any of these been implemented?  I know I'm only one host, but only the first two of these would be useful to me.  But I would never have accepted this change just to get those features. 
 
A year later, I still have customers complaining about this as they add domains to their existing accounts and find that they can't FTP to the new domains like they did their old ones.  I have one customer with 30 domains that existed before the change that all get managed from one FTP account - then he has 20 more that he's added since that each have to have a separate FTP account.  If he wants to make a change to each site, he now has to log into 21 different FTP accounts when he should be able to do this with just ONE.  It still adds issues for us supporting clients - especially on accounts like that above where some domains fall under the old structure and some the new.
 
I'm not really trying to rehash old arguments.  I am more wondering what we have gained from this rather unpopular change over the past year.
 
Mark

Vancouver, Canada – February 04, 2013 – We would like to inform our customers that Hosting Controller version 9.0 build 4 is now available. All existing customers with valid "Standard Support & Upgrade Protection" may download latest build from: http://hostingcontroller.com/Hosting-Software-Downloads/HC-Service-Packs.html 

This latest release provides various new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Visit Help Center to check complete Release Notes for latest build.

Hosting Controller is a unified control panel and an automation solution for service providers offering Microsoft Enterprise Applications such as Exchange, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, Lync and Hyper-V in a shared multi-tenant environment and comes with a comprehensive self-serve portal for the end customers.

About Hosting Controller

Founded in 1999 and pioneer in Windows Hosting Automation, Hosting Controller is a cloud hosting automation solution for web hosts and cloud based service providers. It allows them to manage both Windows & Linux servers simultaneously as part of a single cluster. In addition to shared hosts, Hosting Controller offers a full solution suite for hosted Enterprise Applications creating a shared multi-tenant environment for automatic provisioning of Microsoft Exchange, BlackBerry, SharePoint, Lync and Dynamics CRM. It also offers a full automation solution for Infrastructure and Virtualization providers offering virtualized partitions on both Windows and Linux based servers through VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V & Xen Hypervisor! Hosting Controller Inc. is based in Richmond, BC, Canada and has customers in 125 countries worldwide.

For more information about Hosting Controller Inc. visit http://hostingcontroller.com or call +1 (604) 227-0272.