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If I were to code some sort of simple control panel web site for Xen hosting customers, what sort of features would you like to see on it?
 
If I were to code some sort of simple control panel web site for Xen hosting customers, what sort of features would you like to see on it?
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==Administrivia==
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* Change your email address / postal address / phone number
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* Change your password that is used for the control panel, bandwidth ([http://www.cacti.net/ Cacti]), monitoring ([[Wikipedia:Nagios|Nagios]]) and machine console
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==Hosting==
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* Change reverse DNS, when I have big enough allocations to allow that (far future)
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* Restart your domain if for some reason you can't even log in via console - this would be really odd so probably not much of a priority
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* Send a [[Wikipedia:SysRq|SysRq]]
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* Set up backup MX / DNS
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==Informational==
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* Report when next payment is due
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* Report bandwidth use for last 30 days on at least a daily basis

Revision as of 19:23, 6 January 2006

If I were to code some sort of simple control panel web site for Xen hosting customers, what sort of features would you like to see on it?

Administrivia

  • Change your email address / postal address / phone number
  • Change your password that is used for the control panel, bandwidth (Cacti), monitoring (Nagios) and machine console

Hosting

  • Change reverse DNS, when I have big enough allocations to allow that (far future)
  • Restart your domain if for some reason you can't even log in via console - this would be really odd so probably not much of a priority
  • Send a SysRq
  • Set up backup MX / DNS

Informational

  • Report when next payment is due
  • Report bandwidth use for last 30 days on at least a daily basis