Windows

Architecture Description

 

Flexibility

We've used our 10 years of experience to take a fresh approach to this new product. Enkompass is built from the ground up in native Windows® technologies and with flexibility in mind. It is built to be used in a distributed server environment. This means that one or more Enkompass server(s) will be able to manage many web servers across a Windows Domain, allowing for easy automation and maintenance of a set of servers or your entire data center.

Two mail systems are supported. The product interfaces to any version of MailEnable® or SmarterMail®. SmarterTools®, our preferred vendor, has made available a special Lite version of SmarterMail with unlimited domains that works only with Enkompass.

Enkompass creates databases and user accounts for MySQL® 5, Microsoft SQL Server® 2005 and 2008.

Scalability

Because Enkompass uses Active Directory, user information and reseller privileges are safely stored with scalability in mind. The reseller structure has been enhanced with multi-level reselling. In other words, resellers can sell to resellers.

Beyond the ability to manage multiple servers with one Enkompass install, Enkompass employs user-based licensing to allow you to only pay for the users you need. You can easily upgrade your license when additional users are required.

Hosters can conveniently add web, mail and database servers as their business grows.

Website files and user accounts can be centrally located on a SAN, NAS or File Server, making them available to all the servers.

Website redundancy and scalability is provided by our support for IIS7 Shared Configuration.

Performance and Security

After studying Microsoft IIS7, we've seen a major increase in performance and security, so we will be releasing our product to work with Microsoft IIS7 and Windows Server 2008. You can find more information about Windows Server 2008 at the Microsoft web site http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/. All Enkompass installs should be on a fresh copy of Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

Interoperability / Features

The Enkompass interface mirrors that of cPanel and WHM for Linux. This mirroring allows your staff and customers to understand both products without having to relearn their daily workflow. This should reduce training time for your staff and customers. 

While many features of Enkompass are the same as cPanel and WHM for Linux, features that do not make sense on Windows have been removed, and some Windows-only features have been added. Enkompass retains the rich reseller and account features of the Linux version.

Presentations

View the presentations from the 2008 cPanel Conference.