User:Aqazhar/Hosting Controller

Hosting controller is a commercial hosting automation solution for traditional & Enterprise Hosting. This automation solution is a product of Advanced Communications - a firm that launches high tech start ups having its head office in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Hosting Controller development was started in 1997. Hosting

Overview
HostingController Control Panel is Hosting Business & Operational Support System Developed to provision and automate traditional and enterprise hosting services including simple shared web hosting both linux and windows and also complex SaaS & Enterprise hosting services like MS Exchange,HMC 4.0/4.5 SharePoint, MS CRM Dynamics,BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES).

About Latest release - HC8
HC8 is a web hosting automation control panel which is developed for web hosts to manage different hosting possibilities in cluster & simple environment. It enables web hosting companies to manage all their servers both Windows & Linux through centralized interface. The main difference in HC8 is an enterprise module addition by which Hosting Companies can manage and automate Hosted Exchange, SharePoint, MS CRM Dynamics, BlackBerry enterprise hosting services.

Installation of HC8
Installation of HC8 requires to install database server first. The database server must have Windows OS and can just be a standalone database server or can have other roles (Web, Mail, DNS) as well. The other pre-requisites of HC8 are MS-SQL(MSDE or Express Edition), IIS and FTP server. These must be installed prior to HC8 installation. However rest of the applications like DNS, Mail etc can be installed and configured after HC8 installation.

HC Enterprise Modules (HEMs) Overview
HC Enterprise modules provides solutions for Microsoft Exchange 2007 with its tight integration of Blackberry Enterprise Server, provisioning of Sharepoint services and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. These features come under the HC Enterprise Modules, the company's new approach to bundling services for offering enterprise solutions for hosting industry. Following are the modules currently designed and available for live production:

- Microsoft Exchange 2007

- MS HMC 4.0/ HMC 4.5 - Blackberry Enterprise Server

- SharePoint services

- Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Support for More Solutions
Company is claiming to have support for more enterprise solutions by end of this year. The enterprise modules which are going to release soon are :

- Support for Hyper-V

- Support for OCS

- Redesign solution for HMC

Competing software

 * Plesk
 * HELM
 * ehcp
 * H-Sphere