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Technology

The Penguinator Code

The development of the Penguinator and the applications is a community process, with contributions both from individual developers and corporations. The Core Team members are the people who are actively involved on the development in designing and coding the framework and applications.

The applications are under various Open Source licenses, mostly under the Mozilla Public License. The Penguinator itself, as of version 2.x, is released under the MPL 1.1.

The Penguinator software is written in PHP and C:

• Penguinator Engine is primarily written in PHP, a language explicitly designed for system management.
• Penguinator GUI is written in XHTML and CSS, to work in ALL standards compliant web browsers.
• Penguinator Backend is PostgreSQL.

Penguinator System Requirements

Platform Support

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 / CentOS 5
• Fedora Core 9

Details:

• Apache
• Postfix
• vsftpd
• PHP 5
• PostgreSQL
• POP3 and IMAP Daemon (Courier)
• OpenSSL
• BIND 9

Benefits

Maximize data center productivity and Return-on-Investment.

• Graphic user interfaces for the administrators, resellers and users.
• Hosting services plan management - create your own hosting plans, that include a combination of hosting applications and server resources such as disk space and traffic
• Аutomated creation of users and domains
• Graphical evaluation of every reseller’s and user’s traffic.

Reduce the time required to manage web sites.

For server owners and their resellers, Penguinator Pro shortens the time and expertise required to deploy new sites. For users, Penguinator Pro makes easy management of site files, configuration and users.

• Virtual hosts management (Name-based, IP-based)
• CO-Domains (Domain alias) and sub domains management
• DNS (BIND 8 and 9) management
• FTP users
• E-mail addresses
• POP3 and IMAP accounts
• Auto responders
• CGI, PHP,SSI configuration and management
• MySQL user databases
• Disk quotas
• IP addresses
• Backup and restore
• SSL-secured domains
• password protection (.htaccess files)
• Custom error files - 401, 403, 404 and 500
• Traffic accounting
• Multilanguage support
• Skin-based graphic user interface - 4 pre-installed skins

Penguinator V3 is a free open source alternative to well knowen hosting control panels such as Plesk. Penguinator runs on several flavors of Linux the main one being CentOS. Penguinator is a Professional Control Panel Software for shared, reseller, virtual and dedicated server management.

Penguinator was designed for professional Hosting Service Providers, IT-Professionals, and individual enthusiasts and hobbiests.

Penguinator V3 delivers a complete hosting automation appliance by offering significant security, total-cost-of-ownership, and performance advantages over competing commercial solutions.

With Penguinator Pro you can configure your server and applications, create user with domains with a few point-and-click operations that take less than a minute. There is no limit to the number of resellers, users and domains that can be created.At the core of Penguinator Pro are 3 easy-to-use, Web-based control panels. Penguinator provides graphic user interfaces for the administrators, resellers and users.

Penguinator is…

Free
Penguinator is Free Software  licensed under the BSD license and dedicated to giving users, administrators and developers the ultimate level of control over their linux web servers, and their data.

Usable
Penguinator understands that usability is about creating software that is easy for everyone to use, not about piling on features.

Supported
Beyond the worldwide Penguinator Community, Penguinator is supported by the leading Enterprise Linux distributions.

Accessible
Free Software is about enabling software freedom for everyone, including users, administrators and developers with disabilities. Penguinator Accessibility framework is the result of several years of effort, and makes Penguinator the most accessible control panel for any Linux platform.

International
We strive to develop Penguinator such that it can be internationalized.