HostColor.com has introduced an Open-Source Projects Support Program in an effort to express its gratitude and support for the FOSS projects that create and provide web hosting service administration Control Panels. HostColor will begin making a fixed donation on January 1st, 2023 for each shared web hosting account that makes use of an open-source web hosting management control panel.
When clients decide to utilize the open-source control panel developer’s server management software on a virtual private server hosted on separate physical servers or on a public cloud server provided by the HostColor’s cloud infrastructure, the donation will rise ten times.
“The major producers of server management control panels no longer look committed to providing the L.A.M.P. software bundle users and the open-source-based applications with fair and reasonably priced web hosting automation solutions,” said Dimitar Avramov, CEO at HostColor.
The makers of the most popular server automation control panels, he continues, are continuously raising prices unfairly and taking advantage of customers of web hosting services. “Within the last few years, during the tough economic times, a number of server automation producers are increasing the financial pressure on small and medium businesses, rather than easing it,” added Mr. Avramov. He claims that those producers of server automation have been undermining the principles and values of the open-source community and the L.A.M.P.-based digital economy for a long time.
Raising Awareness
“We want to raise the users’ awareness and tell the small business owners that there are a number of web hosting automation panels that are distributed either with a free or a fairly priced license,” added Mr. Avramov. He refers to web hosting control panels such CentOS Web Panel, Vesta, Froxlor, aaPanel, Webmin, Virtualmin, Ajenti, Sentora, Blueonyx, Easy Hosting Control Panel (EHCP), i-MSCP, ApisCP, ZesleCP, et cetera.
On the program’s website and on the purchase pages for cloud services, you may see a list of the open-source web hosting control panels covered by the ‘Open-source Projects Support Program’ as well as the precise dollar amount of the donations.
Since 2000, HostColor.com has offered hosting and IT infrastructure services all around the world. The business offers colocation services in 50 data centers across the world, has the ability to deploy dedicated servers, and has its own virtual data centers. In 19 European countries, its subsidiary HostColorEurope.com provides dedicated hosting services and managed cloud infrastructure.
