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What a server dashboard should tell you (and what most of them don't)
A control panel's front page is the only screen most people ever look at. Here is what ours puts on it, why each number is there, and the ones we deliberately left off.
A storage limit that is actually a limit
Most per-site disk quotas in hosting panels are a number in a database that nothing enforces. We made ours a real filesystem the site cannot see past — here is what that took, and what it broke.
The delete that reported success and did nothing
A file manager is the most dangerous screen in a control panel. This is the bug that taught us that, plus what a browser-based file manager has to get right before anyone should trust it with a produc
Containers and VMs from one panel, without lying about the difference
LXD containers, QEMU virtual machines and Docker all live on the same Virtualization screen. They are not the same thing, and pretending otherwise is how people lose data. Here is how we present three
Analytics without a tracker: everything your access log already knows
Traffic, countries, devices, referrers, error rates and slow pages — all of it is sitting in a file nginx is already writing. No JavaScript, no third party, no consent banner. Here is how to get it
Twenty-five banners for one product, and why none of them is a resize
A brand kit where every placement is drawn for its own shape — from a 320×50 mobile strip to a 300 dpi A3 poster. What each size is for, the rules that keep them recognisable as one family, and the