July 5th, 2010 by ballen
We’re not far away now from seeing the next upgrade to ZPanel 5, this new release has many bug fixes and several new features including actually disabling hosting accounts with a ‘Bandwidth exceeded’ message (courtesy of Caffine Accdict over at the ZPanel forums) and administrators and resellers can now fully delete hosting accounts as required.
ZPanel 5.1.0 is a breath of fresh air to ZPanel as it will come packaged in two different installers; firstly the standard upgrade installer that will enable users to upgrade from ZPanel 5.0.5 and secondly a major installer that will enable the user to install on top of ZPanel 5.0.0 instead of having to install all of the previous upgrades 
ZPanel 5.1.0 also provides some new functionality which will become more apparent later this summer where we will be releasing our new software platform that will enable ZPanel 5.1.x servers to communicate with a new software package (currently in development) to aid centralised monitoring of multiple ZPanel 5.1.x servers.
Tags: 5.1.0, zp, zpanel, zpanel5
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February 20th, 2010 by ballen
Yesterday the ZPanel team released their new hosted service called OSSDC (Open-source software development community), The site is home to a community forum which discusses open-source software, development and operating systems such as GNU Linux/UNIX etc.
As well as offering the community forum the site also is a free open-source project hosting platform which enables open-source software developers to host their project on OSSDC.net and allows them to benefit from the range of free services including: SVN Repository server, WebSVN viewer, project web space, MySQL database storage and a global file mirror network ensuring that project users can download anywhere in the world at high-speed.
Its still early days as yet but so far we have five hosted projects and hope to find many more cropping up soon
The ZPanel team is committed to providing a great service, so if you have an open-source project, please, let us host it for you
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January 26th, 2010 by ballen
This evening (a few hours ago) the first Alpha release of ZPanel 5 was released to our internal testing staff to download and to play with. The next few days we will be getting staff to test and log bugs on ZPanel 5 alpha and once all fixed the plan is then to release a beta version and will then be made publically avaliable.
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January 25th, 2010 by ballen
So since my last blog post I have been working on ZPanel 5, Although I did post on the forums yesterday morning that my intentsion was to release an Alpha release last night, unfortunetly, during pre-alpha testing on my VM. It failed to work properly. So my plan for this evening is to recompile the ZServer or ‘ZPI’ for Windows using the latest Apache, MySQL and PHP 5.2.x and then re-test.
Once I manage to get the encoding working with the ZServer build all should be well and then I should be releasing ZPanel 5 to the community moderators and internal ZPanel staff first prior to beta testing.
Tags: 5, development, z5, zpanel, zserver
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January 17th, 2010 by ballen
Ok so over the last 36 hours I have been hard at work on ZPanel 5, ZPanel 5 now features some lovely new features of that which I hope will ensure that ZPanel 5 will be the longest serving release ever of ZPanel. So what exactly are the main (new features)…
- A comprehensive templateing system
- Translation system
- Module system
- Both support for Microsoft® Windows™ and GNU/Linux Operating Systems.
- DNS management
So far the framework is pretty much complete with a few changes I need to make here and there, apart from that I have also created a handful of the basic modules (Im keeping the more advanced ones till later, as they are much more interesting 
.
Me and Vantz have been speaking on the phone and together we think that providing a simple to install developer version/alpha release as soon as possible would be good under the understanding that it is purely for module developers and template designers to develop and test their inventions/designs on
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January 10th, 2010 by ballen
I have this evening posted on the official ZPanel community forums annoucing that the development of ZPanel 5 code named ‘Project Dalas’ is now underway and we plan to release this next release of ZPanel by the 1st of March 2010.
For more infomation on this next release please visit my post here:- http://forums.zpanel.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=673
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January 7th, 2010 by ballen
Ok so last month was a very busy month, not only was it christmas but also we managed to release a major release of ZPanel and I’m really pleased to say that the feedback on ZPanel 4.1.0 has been brilliant, I now feel that we nearly offer pretty much the same features as the larger conrol panels such as cPanel and Plesk
So what have we got in store for the rest of this month, well….
I have been working on a few little feature requests and a couple of bugs, I am now able to fully test on Windows 7 thanks for vstockwell over at our community support forums - Thanks buddy
So in a week or so’s time, we should be releasing ZPanel 4.1.1 which will be an upgrade and like I said before will fix a few of the issues that have been found (very minor issues im pleased to say) as well as implementing some new little feature requests
After we have this out of the way, Im then going to start work on Project Dalas….
For those of you that arent familiar what Project Dalas is, its an entirely new version of ZPanel written from the ground up and instead of encoding the entire software, we are only going to encode our master functions file to ensure that end users have all the abilities to edit and customise their panel how they want it…. Project Dalas will enable template support as well as language translations
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December 31st, 2009 by ballen
Yesterday evening I released ZPanel 4.1.0, this is the first major release since ZPanel 4.0.0 and is provided as an upgrade version from ZPanel 4.0.3 and as a full installer (doesnt require a previous version of ZPanel to be installed).
Infomation and download links for ZPanel 4.1.0 (including an entire list of new features and bug fixes etc.:)
http://forums.zpanel.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=640
With ZPanel 4.1.0 ZPanel has bandwidth monitoring functionality that records bandwidth used by each user on a monthly basis, also ZPanel 4.1.0 also supports billing modules, I have also optimised the code so that the whole panel loads and runs alot smoother by making the disk and bandwidth calculations run periodically and stored in the database for instant read.
Our feedback so far on the forums about this release is really excelent, our users strongly believe this is a whole new step for ZPanel. (See this thread: http://forums.zpanel.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=642)
Tags: 4.1.0 zpanel released features
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December 19th, 2009 by ballen
A good four years after my original release of Zantastico for ZPanel 2.5 I have finally gotten round to making a new version for the latest stable release of ZPanel….
User’s running ZPanel 4.0.1+ can now download and use this brilliant and widely used Package deployment tool.
Zantastico will deploy various types of Open-source or ‘free’ software packages to ZPanel user’s hosting spaces, such as phpBB3, Wordpress, Mambo CMS and many more…
For a full list and link to the download please read this forum thread:-
http://forums.zpanel.co.uk/showthread.php?tid=607
Tags: installer, packages, zantastico, zpanel
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December 6th, 2009 by ballen
Today I wrote the first module for ZPanel 4.0.1, this can be downloaded from our forums….
The module intergrates with ZPanel 4.x.x and enables the user to quickly and easily manage files and folders in their web hosting space.
I am hoping that other members from the community will start developing modules and publishing them for other users to download and use.
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