Mar, 2009 : Web Host UK2 Group Developing New Control Panel

📅 March 10, 2009 - Web hosting company family, the UK2 Group (uk2group.com) has announced plans to launch a "next generation control panel" across its entire line of brands, including key hosting providers UK2.net, midPhase and WestHost.

According to the company, an exclusive public beta test of Tera.CP has just been released to customers of its dedicated hosting brand, 10TB.com (10tb.com -> 100tb.com), with further testing and roll out to follow over the course of 2009.

The UK2 Group said Tera.CP "is a significant departure from the traditional, static control panel that hosting customers are used to," giving users a much more versatile experience. Tera.CP is based on EXTJS (extjs.com), a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich Internet applications. Tera.CP also uses the Adobe Air runtime environment, to offer a rich Internet application that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems.

According to the company, 10TB.com customers using Tera.CP are given total control over their servers and up-to-the-second information on hardware and bandwidth usage.

"Tera.CP is another key development for the hosting industry being led by UK2 Group," UK2 Group chief executive officer Ditlev Bredahl said. "With such a large family of brands offering customers the latest hosting products and services, we felt that it was hugely important to provide customers with a sophisticated yet easy to use control panel to manage their requirements."

Bredahl also noted that Carlos Rego spearheaded the development of the new control panel. He said Rego has about 15 years of experience in the field including a post as managing director of Positive Software's H-Panel before it was bought by Parallels Plesk Panel provider Parallels (parallels.com) in September 2007.