Why we built it
For years, hosting control panels have been both the backbone and the bottleneck of the industry. Providers relied on them for every operation – from creating accounts to managing DNS. Yet those same panels often slowed work down, limited options, and ate margins. Licensing changes turned stable business models into unpredictable ones. Migrations between systems meant chaos and sleepless nights. APIs were bolted on, never central. Interfaces looked like relics from years ago, forcing hosts to explain to customers why the panel felt like it was built a decade earlier.
Against this backdrop, adminbolt was created. The goal was never to “reinvent the wheel” just for the sake of it. The goal was to build a panel that matches the best on the market – with one crucial difference: it finally keeps pace with hosting companies and with the changes happening across the internet. Not a panel that resists change, but a platform that supports it and helps companies grow through it.
adminbolt vision
We want to be transparent. Current control panels as products for shared hosting work and they do the job. We are, however, shocked at how basic problems remain unsolved for decades.
Our vision is clear: we want to create a panel that is not only more cost-effective than the overloaded per-account licenses that have been draining hosting companies for years, but also one that finally solves operators’ fundamental problems. Pains such as:
- No dashboard to manage the entire infrastructure,
- Manual verification of users for migrations between servers (in the era of popular CDNs…),
- No easy way to separate email infrastructure from the web server,
- No flexible path to move from shared hosting to more advanced environments
But the mission goes further. Hosting companies will not survive by selling storage and CPU alone while SaaS platforms take the most valuable part of the market. adminbolt aims to unlock new revenue streams by enabling hosts to work hand in hand with agencies and freelancers. With the adminbolt marketplace, operators will be able to monetize what happens on their servers – offering ready-to-use applications, selling add-on services, and connecting end customers with partners directly inside the panel.
This is not just a technical improvement – it is a business model shift. By letting hosts capture more value from their customers, adminbolt gives the industry a way to defend against SaaS, unlock additional revenue, and build a future where hosts are not only infrastructure vendors but full-service platforms.
Imagine a reseller offering an optimized WordPress bundle – with security plugins, caching, and performance tuning – as a ready, branded product in the adminbolt marketplace. Instead of competing on price alone, they sell a premium product with higher margin. Or an agency specialized in SEO and UX – it can list its services in the panel so clients can order in one click, while the host keeps control of the relationship. Even freelancers can join the ecosystem – for example, offering quick site migrations or template customization – turning one-off jobs into steady, trackable revenue streams for the host.
This is how adminbolt redefines the role of the panel. It is not only infrastructure management software, but a growth platform – where every action on the server can translate into revenue, and every customer touchpoint becomes a chance to strengthen the host’s business.
How adminbolt will solve this
The strength of SaaS is not the technology itself – it is the packaging. Platforms like Wix or Shopify win because they sell outcomes: a working store, a website ready in minutes, a business tool available on demand. Hosting companies, locked into panels that expose only “raw” infrastructure, were never given a chance to compete at that level.
This is exactly what adminbolt wants to change. Our roadmap is to give hosts the same ability to package and deliver outcomes – but under their brand, with their margin, and with full control of the customer relationship. No more selling infrastructure only.
I always use this example in talks: what would your iOS or Android be without an app store? The same as shared hosting for sites and apps looks today.
Through the upcoming marketplace, providers will be able to present ready application stacks tailored to specific use cases, directly in the panel. A customer will be able to launch a blog, an online shop, or an e-learning platform in one click – just like in SaaS – but the transaction will belong to the host, not to an external giant.
In short: adminbolt will take the proven SaaS playbook and put it in the hands of the hosting industry. The panel will no longer be just a management tool – it will become a growth engine.
Beta foundation
The public beta is not a demo and not a list of future promises. It is already a full panel, able to run real production environments. The familiar elements are in place – domains, mail, DNS, SSL, databases, backups, permissions.
But what sets adminbolt apart is how these foundations are built. At its center are agents – lightweight processes running on every server. Every configuration change, every resource tweak, every deployment is handled locally by an agent, checked, and reported to the control plane. This reduces latency, limits risk, and enables predictable scaling across many servers.
The second big change is configuration. Operators no longer have to live with settings imposed from above. In adminbolt, you can fine-tune service parameters – PHP versions, mail policies, resource limits, security rules. This is key for hosts who compete on quality and need the flexibility to offer optimized environments without patches and workarounds.
And above all – adminbolt is API-first. The API is not an add-on or an integration layer screwed onto the UI. It is the foundation of the whole system.
The next chapter
The beta is open – and this stage matters more than any roadmap. This is the moment when adminbolt meets the realities of hosting companies: servers with different OS versions, patches and custom scripts; environments where some resources are managed by resellers and others by direct customers; legacy systems glued together over years of fixes; compliance rules that vary by region; DNS, email, and databases split across hardware; and dependencies that break during migrations. No internal test will reproduce these conditions.
Operators who join the beta will be part of shaping the future. They will get early access to the automation we are building. They will influence the features that matter. And they will do it with pricing that is stable, predictable, and fair.
This is a change in how panels are seen. From a background cost to a growth partner. From software you tolerate to a platform that helps you compete.
adminbolt is not here to be “just another panel.” It is here to be the partner the hosting industry has been missing. One that walks shoulder to shoulder with operators, helps sell more effectively, and finally monetizes the real value created on servers.