SnerpCP Introductory Video Released!

[Seraphino]

As you may have read in the projects discussion forum, I am working on a remote web-based control panel called SnerpCP. It will have all the aspects of CPanel, but in a more user-friendly enviornment.

If you would like to see more of our first video which shows logins, layout, and the basic aspects of SnerpCP, you can go to here

Video is 4 mins 30 seconds (I forgot to change compression)

If you liked this, please go to our companies website http://www.eliminet.org and post on our discussion forums to help the development, as well as other things that our website has to offer.

Thanks, and tell me what you think about the video! (Very basic, since we are not THAT far into development).

[Kasracer]

Neat but some of the words choosen for the presentation are a bit... misleading. Regarding SSL and 128bit encryption "your website will never be stolen" is just very inaccurate. If they have the password of "password", that encryption isn't going to do anything. Also, since your application isn't hosted on their web server itself, how does it access the server to change settings? You have to open some sort of connection which, depending on what technology you're usinged, may leave the server open to attacks as well.

Your application looks neat and is promising, but the whole point of CPanel and XPanel was to make administering your server easier and since it's hosted on the server, there was no need to allow MySQL and other technology access anything but localhost.

Though all panels I've seen don't eliminate the need for someone to actually "clean up" their mess as CPanel does muck up lots of configuration files.

[Seraphino]

Actually, everything is secure. It uses remote connections via PHP and the reason that logging in takes so long, is because it establishes a remote connection over a secure line to the server. Like I said, you have to do some CHMODing and server access setup on your own, but it will do the rest.

Trust me, it is secure.

I HATE THIS "Chars Left:" THING!

[Kasracer]

Actually, everything is secure. It uses remote connections via PHP and the reason that logging in takes so long, is because it establishes a remote connection over a secure line to the server. Like I said, you have to do some CHMODing and server access setup on your own, but it will do the rest.

Trust me, it is secure.

You missed my point. You have to open up things on your server to the outside which opens up the possibility for attacks. I highly doubt you'll get anyone to use this application that uses shared hosting as I've never come across a server setup like you'd need to it be and you can't change any of those settings with a shared hosting account.

Also, why would you want a remote control panel? If your own server goes down, then this remote control panel becomes useless until it goes back up (with CPanel or XPanel, the case would be the same). However, if the server hosting the remote control panel goes down OR gets compromised, the client will not have any way to configure their server unless they do it manually or via CPanel (thus, making the remote control panel useless) or if it's compromised, an attacker may have total access to everyone's servers.

I'm not trying to put down your project at all; it does sound pretty nifty. I just wanted to bring to light some of my concerns as you'll probably run into others with the same concerns and since it's very early in development, you have time to either change/fix these things, or even move onto another project if you really wanted to.

I HATE THIS "Chars Left:" THING!

Aww I like it

[Seraphino]

Well Kascracer, I have chatted with my co-developer, and me and him both agree that

A) This project is awefully big for 2 developers

B) We realize that this is a security invulnerability, and we are removing SnerpCP from the planet.

Doesn't matter anyway, we weren't making that great of progress anyway.

[Kasracer]

I hope I didn't discourage you (I have that affect sometimes). If it's something you really want to do, even if it isn't something most people want, you should still do it.