HC FEATURES OVERVIEW © Hosting Controller 1998 – 2009. All Rights Reserved. HC Features Overview Contents Proprietary Notice........................................................................................................................ 3 HC Overview ................................................................................................................................4 The Company ........................................................................................................................... 4 The Product............................................................................................................................... 4 Latest Version ........................................................................................................................... 6 Benefits....................................................................................................................................... 6 HC Features................................................................................................................................... 7 Development Framework ....................................................................................................... 7 Centralized Database............................................................................................................... 7 Load Balancer ........................................................................................................................... 7 Windows and Linux Support ................................................................................................. 7 NAT Independent .................................................................................................................... 7 Improved Error Handling....................................................................................................... 8 Cluster Management with Central Control.......................................................................... 8 Click & Install Apps ++............................................................................................................ 8 Improved GUI with New Versatile Gadgets........................................................................ 9 Advanced Billing System ........................................................................................................ 9 Multilingual Control Panel ..................................................................................................... 9 RebuildXpress Utility (Backup Recovery Tool) ................................................................. 10 Exchange 2007......................................................................................................................... 10 Multi Mail Server Support .................................................................................................... 10 Mail Only Domains................................................................................................................ 11 BlackBerry (BES)..................................................................................................................... 11 Customizable & Advanced Level Auto Signup................................................................. 12 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) ............................................................................ 13 Dynamics CRM 4.0................................................................................................................. 13 Customizable Hotlinks Added in the Panel....................................................................... 13 HC API..................................................................................................................................... 13 HC Supported Products ............................................................................................................ 14 Future Enhancement Plans ....................................................................................................... 14 Development Road Map for 2009............................................................................................. 15 Contact Us ................................................................................................................................... 15 © Hosting Controller 2009. All Rights Reserved ‐ 2 ‐ HC Features Overview Proprietary Notice © 2009 Hosting Controller. All Rights Reserved. This document is the property of, and contains proprietary information of Hosting Controller. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, for any purpose other than consideration of the technical contents without the written acquiescence of a duly authorized representative of Hosting Controller. © Hosting Controller 2009. All Rights Reserved ‐ 3 ‐ HC Features Overview HC Overview The Company HOSTING CONTROLLER is a product of Advanced Communications ‐ a well known firm that conceives, creates, matures and launches high tech start ups, having its head office in Los Angeles, CA, USA. HC development was started in 1997. Over thirteen years of development, experience and innovation delivers unmatched functionality, flexible features, and robust user‐interface. A quick overview of HC is as follows: ¾ In 1999, HC was the only commercially available product for the then nascent hosting on Windows Servers. ¾ In 2001, a better version was released with many new features. ¾ In 2003, a multilingual version of the product was released. Also, the architecture of the product was slightly improved. ¾ In Jan 2007, the long awaited release of Hosting Controller named HC7 was released with both Windows and Linux support. ¾ And now, HC customers are enhancing the capabilities of their hosting business with the latest version of HC i.e. HC8. It includes comprehensive support for Exchange 2007, BlackBerry (BES), Dynamics CRM 4.0 Module and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS). The Product HC is specifically designed& developed for web hosts to experience infinite hosting impossibilities in cluster environment and reduce their operational cost. It enables web hosting companies to manage all their servers both Windows & Linux through centralized interface. You can add multiple mail servers within a cluster and offer MS‐Exchange & SharePoint hosting. You can expand your business with HC, from one server to cluster of servers. It allows you to add new clusters as per your requirements. Following figure illustrates working of HC in a cluster environment: © Hosting Controller 2009. All Rights Reserved ‐ 4 ‐ HC Features Overview © Hosting Controller 2009. All Rights Reserved ‐ 5 ‐ HC Features Overview Latest Version The latest version of HC i.e. HC8, offers variant new features that enables you to take your hosting business beyond the expectations. Now with HC8, you can not only manage both Windows & Linux servers through a centralized interface but can also offer MS Exchange and SharePoint Hosting. Moreover, with its comprehensive support for Dynamics CRM and BlackBerry (BES), you can now experience the infinite and enterprise hosting possibilities. Some of the salient features of this latest version – HC8 are as follows: ¾ Cluster Management ¾ NAT Independent ¾ Centralized Database ¾ Load Balancing ¾ Improved Error Handling ¾ Click and Install Applications ¾ HC API Support ¾ Multilingual Support ¾ Cross‐Platform Support (Windows and Linux) ¾ Integrated Trouble Ticketing System ¾ Improved GUI with New Versatile Gadgets Benefits Hosting Controller is a complete array of Web hosting automation tools for Windows and Linux. Hosting Controller software is a powerful and flexible multilingual automation suite that offers service providers a reliable, secure and scalable solution for building and managing both Windows and Linux hosting environments quickly and easily. Its advanced features and sophisticated billing system are designed to automate and improve Web hosting tasks. © Hosting Controller 2009. All Rights Reserved ‐ 6 ‐ HC Features Overview HC Features Following section of the document provides a brief overview of each of the HC Features: Development Framework From the efficiency and security point of view, all development of Hosting Controller is done using the latest .NET framework version 2.0. It has mature debugging tools and thus ensures lesser bugs for the resulting product. It uses most of the industry standard protocols such as XML, SOAP and HTTP and thus facilitates distributed application communications efficient, ensuring all the security measures. Centralized Database HC uses a single centralized database, with reduced redundancy, improved security measures and easy management reducing the chances for bugs in the product. Load Balancer One of the key features HC is Load Balancing. In todayʹs world we face slow traffic on our networks. Among other reasons one big reason is over loaded servers. HC7 introduces its load balancing component which is built‐in; it automatically balances the traffic load in a cluster. When there is more than one Shared Hosting server in the Cluster, resellers share the resources on these Shared servers. There are provisions in the load balancing mechanism to enhance it further i.e. later the load balancing can be based on the amount of bandwidth, memory or CPU usage or some other parameter for future enhancements. Windows and Linux Support HC8 gives its users the freedom to use any operating system (Windows/Linux) on the