VHCS

VHCS is a Professional Control Panel Software for shared, reseller, virtual and dedicated server management. It was designed for professional Hosting Service Providers and IT-Professionals.

About VHCS

VHCS delivers a complete hosting automation appliance by offering significant security, total-cost-of-ownership, and performance advantages over competing commercial solutions. VHCS stands for Virtual Hosting Control System. It is a comfortable, web-based software for the automated administration of unix based web servers.

With VHCS 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. The core of VHCS are 3 easy-to-use control panels. VHCS provides graphic user interfaces for the administrators, resellers and users.

The History of VHCS

The VHCS project was started 2000 by Galin Jordanov. He was at system administrator on moleSoftware GmbH. The project was founded to minimise administration work on customers. The first VHCS version 0.1 was released in July 2000 on Debian Sid and completely written in PHP.
In 2001 Alexander Kotov and Hristo Dimov joined the team to create a standard solution for webhosting on moleSoftware. Version 1.0 had already a daemon and the Perl back end engine.
In 2002 VHCS was distributed by Gajda IT Consulting. A staff of 15 members was working on it. The Versions Light 1.27 (February 2002), Pro 1.27 (March 2002), Pro 1.4 (July 2002) and Pro 1.6 (November 2002) were build, supporting Debian, SuSE and Red Hat Linux.
The year 2003 was the first turning point in the History of VHCS. The market for control panels has changed; moleSoftware couldn't sell as much as expected. The result was VHCS Pro 1.6 was getting free software in March 2004.
A few month later, in August 2004 VHCS Pro 2.0 was release as an open source based application with a bound of new features; e.g. a new Daemon, a new graphical interface and better performance.
October 2004, release of VHCS 2.2 (there was no pro any more in the name) with several bug fixes and improvements. In December 2004 the whole code was set under MPL.
2005 the year of VHCS 2.4. A new "Look & Feel" was created and a lot of other features. Benedikt Heintel joined the developing team with his AWStats add on and some additional fixes. VHCS 2.4 was released in March 2004. After that a lot of community work was done. Malte Geierhos became part of the developing team. VHCS 2.4.2 - VHCS 2.4.6 followed in a very short time.
In 2006 there was the second turning point of VHCS: The developing team melt down. Only four active developer last, Alexander Kotov has left the project which run now without head. VHCS 2.4.7, 2.4.7.1 and 2.4.7.2 were released as bug fix releases. The work on VHCS 2.4.8 started but was never finished. The VHCS 2.4.8 RC1 was out to a beta testing team but never released.

The Time after VHCS

In October / November 2006 Malte Geierhos asked Benedikt Heintel and Mark Henning to fork the project to make it more open. In November we set up this page and started in December coding VHCS ω.
Here the history of VHCS ends and of VHCS ω begins...