HC8 Overview

HC8 is a unified hosting automation control panel for web hosts and cloud based service providers to manage both Windows & Linux servers simultaneously as part of a single cluster. It includes automated billing & provisioning and customizable auto sign-up scripts which are tightly integrated with domain registrars and payments processors.

It also offers 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. This allows service providers to offer unique services to their customers and ultimately grow as professional web hosting company. HC8 helps service providers and their customers to create and manage websites, mail domains, email users, ftp accounts, DNS, website statistics, databases, SSL, DSN, scripting permissions etc.

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. This provides flexibility to manage Windows (IIS) and Linux (Apache) web servers simultaneously through a centralized single interface.

HC control panel supports a distributed environment. Service providers can use their Web, Mail, DNS and Database servers on separate servers including Linux systems.