Helm Control panel

[Deb]

Hi, anyone using Helm for windows, installed it Thursday and like it a lot, not much admin tutorials so any help?

 

[Forum4hosts]

Hey their, i havent heard of it...never mind used it. Whats it like ? Is it good ?

Matt

 

[mark]

Quite a lot of (windows) hosts are using it now.... certainly the best one for the platform so far.
Not personally using it it - simply because we havn't gotten around to it.
Cheers

 

[Tim Greer]

It's the best Windows hosting control panel out at the moment.

Million times better than Hosting Controller. However with all the hosts using it we can't use as a point of difference now. Just gonna have to get on and skin it so it doesn't look like Helm anymore.

 

[Mekhu]

Deb,

Can I get the homepage URL to Helm please.

 

[Mekhu]

Anyone got the Helm URL?

 

[Enrique]

Anyone got the Helm URL?

http://helm.webhostautomation.com/

 

[Mekhu]

Thanks a ton!

 

[rescenter]

Helm is great software but the makers don;t seem to have stepped up as far as support and or documentation. In their forum the users discuss writing their own documentation because the makers of HELM have posted very little documentation.. We also beta tested it and found that support is basically a 9-5 M-F so we were unable to offer it with confidence.

 

[gate2vn]

I like HELM. It's very easy to use, for both reseller and end users. I have a reseller account using HELM, and even having some customers not familiar with web control panel, they 're ahppy to use it.

For tutorials, you can find some in www.exa-bytes.com

 

[othellotech]

and try getting over to helmtastic - they have good /active HELM forums, how-to's etc (and discounted licences AFAIUI)

 

[carlosamador]

Hi

You can get the software and the support from www.helmtastic.com the support is great i submit a problem and 5 minutes latter they were fixing it

 

[1PlanHost]

At 1PlanHost.com we tested Hosting Controller last Summer but we started running into problems with how it sets up accounts in IIS under the same IIS_USER account and then breaks off from there (not a great idea for obvious security reasons).

Then we discovered HELM in September 03 and have not had any second thoughts since. We have HELM configured in a multiple server distributed setting so it sets up all new accounts across all web servers and email servers currently in production. This is a fantastic feature that many of the others do not have. It enables us to spread out new accounts over many servers and therefore we do not have issues with one server getting pounded with users uploading their site files while they are setting up their new sites. The load is distributed across all servers evenly and we set up a script to monitor this.

The only complaints I have at the moment is the lack of pre-propagation 3rd level domain support (still under development since last year) and those guys in England write things differently than most of us in the US understand so some of the meanings of terms have to be interpreted. We ended up having to set host headers for each new account manually in order to get pre-propagation 3rd level domains to work. Anyone got a better way to do that with HELM or a script for Windows 2003?

Best Wishes for a .Net Success!

 

[Khazun]

Yes, Helm is a very, very nice control panel.