In this article, we will discuss some of the very exciting features of HELM4.

Helm 4 was designed to cater for the widely different types of hosting businesses in the industry.  Helm has a flexibility that is unbeatable and has been proven to dramatically reduce support time, administrative time and provide growth capabilities unparalleled by other control panel systems.

Helm4 Major Feature List

Server Management Features

• Manage Unlimited Servers, Users and Domains
• Quickly add or remove servers as you grow
• Assign IPs and Services as resources to offer to your customers
• Customise services for complete flexibility
• Integration with IIS5 and IIS6 Webservers
• Integration with SmarterMail, MailEnable, IMail, Merak, MDaemon and hMailServer Mail Servers
• Integration with Microsoft FTP, Serv-U FTP and Gene6 FTP Server
• Integration with SimpleDNS and Microsoft DNS Server
• Integration with Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL Server 
• Support for DeepMetrix LiveStats 5, 6 and 7, SmarterStats and AWStats Statistics Servers
• Support for ASP, ASP.NET, Perl, PHP and ColdFusion
• Support for Python and ASP.Net 2
• A new set of wizards that help people set up various parts of Helm in a step by step manner
• Manage Server IPs for dedicated and shared hosting
• Specify Internal and External IPs for NAT-Based configurations
• Add/Edit/Remove services such as Web, Email, DNS, FTP
• Use Helm's Service Distribution model to balance the load evenly across servers
• Make use of Helm's Self Diagnostic Tool to quickly find and resolve server problems
• View detailed error logs to track down any configuration problems
• Specify Global DNS records to be added automatically to new domains
• View accurate system resource usage information
• Automatically notify customers and administrators when a customer uses more disk-space or bandwidth than they have been allotted.
• View Disk-space and Bandwidth usage statistics
• NEW! Cross-datacenter communication without the need for VPN
• NEW! Firewall Friendly
• NEW! Server Extensions allowing you to manage services such as Windows Processes, Windows Services, Windows Firewall and reboot your servers.
• NEW! View detailed server memory usage and hardware setup
• NEW! Re-boot and shutdown servers
• NEW! Configure Windows Firewall adding port exception and service exceptions, enabling and disabling firewall on server
• NEW! Control terminal services
• NEW! Monitor bad scripts running on your Windows services
• NEW! IIS management
• NEW! Automatically give site a static IP
• NEW! Automatic updates
• NEW! Simple, single-click module installations
• NEW! Improved Bandwith Tracking capabilities
• NEW! Backup/Restore
  

Domain Management Features

• As an administrator or reseller you can view, edit and remove domains and domain registrations for any user in the system
• Add/Remove Domains
• Search for domains by domain name
• Manage FTP Accounts
• Use Helm's File Manager to manage website content online
• Create and Manage Virtual Directories
• Secure website folders
• Add/Remove Domain Aliases and Sub-Domains
• Use Helm's DNS Zone Editor to manage DNS Zone records (A, MX, CNAME, etc.)
• Add/Remove Databases and Database users with Helm's Database Manager. MySQL allows backup, download and restores for the end users)
• Manage MIME types
• Manage Custom Error Pages
• Install/Remove and Manage FrontPage Extensions
• Install/Remove Shared SSL
• Configure website settings including support for extensions such as ASP/PHP/Perl/etc, Directory Browsing, Permissions, etc.
• View Diskspace and Bandwidth usage information
• Create and Manage ColdFusion DSNs
• Manage IIS Default Documents
• Manage IIS Parent Paths
• Domain Forwarding
• NEW! Due to Helm's new module-based design it is now possible to support all custom features that each product may support.
• NEW! Helm's new provisioning system allows you to specify exactly how services such as email accounts are set up when a new domain is created.

(Posted By Jason on Friday, December 01, 2006)