HestiaCP Wish List

johnny · June 19, 2021, 10:00pm

Here is my Wishlist for the Fantastic HestiaCP,
although my wishes may not be the same as everyone else’s but I figure I would document it on the forums.
I understand most or all of these wishes may not be implemented and I don’t want to put any obligation on any of the developers to do so, just wishes

I’m curious of other peoples Wishlists

HestiaCP Wishlist

eMail

Add Auto-Discover support
Add Active-Sync support
Add [email protected] tagging support
CardDav, CalDav App select similar to webmail select option
Delegated Email access and impersonation support for admins of domain
user, domain, and global whitelist and blacklist support
user, domain, and global Spam filter setting
Ability to Restore Individual User mailboxes
user, domain, global policy on permanently deleting trashed and junk email every 30 days
user, domain, global policy on email archiving to send email to an archive server
Replace Spam Assassin with RSPAM

File Manager

By default start in logged in users web folder when file manager is accessed even if they do have full shell access
add tar.gz extraction support to file manager
when copying or moving is selected automatically start in the directory of the files you want to move or copy

General

Rename public_html to public
When Adding Web Domains and Create DNS Zone is checked reveal the DNS template option
When deleting a Web Domain show checkbox options to delete the Mail and DNS if they exist
Incremental Backup support
White Label Support (Change Logo and panel name)
Subdomain panel access panel.domain.tld
Firewall Single Click Whitelist IP support
WebAuthn support (Yubikey, hardware keys) 2 factor or single login support
Increase PHP defaults to work well with more apps such as Nextcloud.
Ability to Set Host Lets Encrypt in setting on the web Control Panel
Migrate Domains and DBs to User option in UI
Give each user thier own MariaDB Instance which would eliminate the db name to have the user prefix in front and should make it easier to migrate to new users with domains that have a SQL DB attached

Remove

PostgreSQL which also removes pgsqladmin
Awstats
Remove the Multiple IP Address Feature, one IP per hestia Instance
Remove Default DNS Entries: ftp, imap, webmail, pop, smtp
Remove FTP support
Remove Ubuntu Support and only support Debian less releases and less maintenance only support Debian (Note I currently use Ubuntu so I would have to migrate but it would make sense)

jlguerrero · June 19, 2021, 10:30pm

Yes.

The three are good.

That could break many scripts

Yes.

I already asked for it.

That could also lead to deploy WordPress installs in staging and production.

chupa · June 19, 2021, 10:34pm

porridge… return v1.3.5 + remove FM + remove quickinstall + replace SA with RSPAM + update software + fix/finish = perfect panel.

eris · June 20, 2021, 3:23am

Already possible …

schiwe · June 20, 2021, 3:25am

@johnny I think you got it all wrong. This project is Open Source …

eris · June 20, 2021, 3:31am

Whislist

Ipv6 support
PHP-FPM pool data changeable settings to be changed at domain level without new templates

eris · June 20, 2021, 4:21am

Hestia is an Open source project. Currently we provide this awesome software to everybody. In return for this awesome software we don’t ask anything from anybody. So instead of asking new features maybe consider developing it.

If you need a new feature you can always develop it and submit it via a Pull request.

A lot of our developers don’t use email hosted on Hestia servers.

File manager had a lot of limitations how ever unless we develop our own not a lot of improvements will come. Issue is only time / manpower…

Create a feature request it makes sense if DNS is enabled…

Access via panel.domain.com instead panel.domain.com:8083 is possible

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/jaapmarcus/25b513629139af4ff45915fa154675b9

cp.stpl

#=======================================================================#
# Default Web Domain Template                                           #
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! CHANGES WILL BE LOST WHEN REBUILDING DOMAINS #
#=======================================================================#

server {
    listen      %ip%:%proxy_ssl_port% ssl http2;
    server_name %domain_idn% %alias_idn%;
    ssl_certificate      %ssl_pem%;
    ssl_certificate_key  %ssl_key%;

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cp.tpl

#=======================================================================#
# Default Web Domain Template                                           #
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! CHANGES WILL BE LOST WHEN REBUILDING DOMAINS #
#=======================================================================#

server {
    listen      %ip%:%proxy_port%;
    server_name %domain_idn% %alias_idn%;
        
    include %home%/%user%/conf/web/%domain%/nginx.forcessl.conf*;

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Single Sign On support has been added for phpmyadmin from Hestia. Webmail we voted against it… For panel. You have so many security concerns…

We should create the possibility to set certain limits in php-fpm.conf

If you set up your server correctly SSL will create on install and not manual again…

Never needed so far to use it once it does not make sense to create a functions that has so limited use…

MariaDB is quite memory intensive it makes no sense for most users…

Don’t install it then… MariaDB is often not a replacement for PostgreSQL…

Removing doesn’t make sense. I do agree improvements are needed

Removing without a replacement option makes no sense …

Makes no sense as ipv6 is a needed …

Don’t install FTP on install. I do agree SFTP access for additional accounts is a nice add-on…

Will never happen…

David-Spring · June 20, 2021, 7:30am

I think it is unwise to have so many suggestions all in the same forum post. It would have been much better to pick two or three things that matter most and then have a discussion on the pros and cons of them - and then do a separate post for two or three other topics.

I mainly want to thank the developers for this terrific panel. In my opinion, it is the best panel in the world and you do not have to do anything else. It is already terrific just the way it is.

However, in terms of getting rid of things, I support replacing spam assassin with RSPAM.

Although some may hate me for this, I also support getting rid of clam-av - mainly because in my opinion, it does very little and it uses one entire GB of RAM. Using that much RAM is in my opinion ridiculous. I am aware that I can just delete clam-av from the install and that is what I do. But I really see know reason for clam-av in the first place despite having studied clam-av for years.

I also think that the Hestia File Manager should keep public_html. Changing this folder to the name public would cause complete havoc.

I used to use Ubuntu (for the past 10 years). But a year ago, I switched to Debian and I think it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Debian is much better and much easier to use now than it was 10 years ago. I would at least encourage people to try Debian and I want to thank the developers for supporting Debian.

eris · June 20, 2021, 8:22am

Every time I see a topic/feature request like this I think, users forget that this is not CPanel and it free software.

For 100 accounts they charge almost 50 dollar a month. If they have 100 000 client it will mean the can spend about 5 000 000 dollar / month on support / development and have a profit. We don’t have the possibilities so forget it…

There are currently around 11k servers on the “internet” running HestiaCP. So developing a feature request for a function to help 1 user save xx minutes of time doesn’t add up.

For example: Feature Request: Ability to add public SSH key(s) via web interface for users · Issue #701 · hestiacp/hestiacp · GitHub

Was added by me because there was a need for it. (Before I was part of Hestia) And this is often the best way to add a feature.

If I have to spend 1 / 2 days on a new feature it needs tick of at least of 2 / 3 for:

It speed up some thing / Improve a lot of stability
I use it …
A lot of users want it… (Ipv6 for example)
It makes things easier

For example:

github.com/hestiacp/hestiacp

[Feature request] Using ZSTD instead of GZIP for backups.

opened 07:13AM - 16 Sep 20 UTC

closed 03:58PM - 21 Sep 20 UTC

Hexaris

backup feature

Don’t you want to use zstd for backups? The resulting size may be similar (gzip)…, but it takes much less time. Example (hestia in kvm - proxmox backup): - **gzip** INFO: 100% (64.0 GiB of 64.0 GiB) in 37m 12s, read: 25.4 MiB/s, write: 25.2 MiB/s INFO: backup is sparse: 11.29 GiB (17%) total zero data INFO: transferred 64.00 GiB in **2232** seconds (29.4 MiB/s) INFO: archive file size: 48.80GB INFO: Backup job finished successfully - **zstd** INFO: 100% (64.0 GiB of 64.0 GiB) in 27m 41s, read: 21.9 MiB/s, write: 21.7 MiB/s INFO: backup is sparse: 11.29 GiB (17%) total zero data INFO: transferred 64.00 GiB in **1661** seconds (39.5 MiB/s) INFO: archive file size: 48.57GB INFO: Backup job finished successfully

Was added within 2 days because:

I would love faster backups
Smaller / faster Backups and it may save disk space

Our base development team is currently very small. One of the active developers had enough of it and “left”.

If you check Github you will see that 90% of commits are done by me and even I have not enough time to do some basic bug fixes

I am currently working about 25 to 30 hour a week on this project and the current income of Hestia is nothing more than 100 euro in a month. And for ipv6 a lot of more hours need to be invested into it…

If you don’t like it you have 4 options:

Submit changes via a pull request
Fork Hestia and develop your own panel. Build your own packages and so on.
Stick with it and accept that no changes are made.
Or use a other panel. There are 1000 other options that suite your needs. Paid and maybe free ones

johnny · June 20, 2021, 4:49pm

Sorry @eris I went out of line here.

I appreciate the work you do on this project.
Your right bugs are more important than features and I just got out of hand without thinking about the people that develop HestiaCP.

I would love to do pull requests but i’m not at that skill level yet however I’ll continue to provide meaningful bug reports and help solves issues on the forums and github issues when I can.

Thanks again for all that you do!

liamgibbins · June 21, 2021, 8:52am

Personally I think Hestia is awesome and is a base to make your own edits and improvements.

I know alot of users like me have limited or no experience in developing PHP, java etc and want an out of the box solution that suits there needs but not everyone has the same requirements.

I have just bought a new home server for the purpose of learning PHP etc and messing about with Hestia.

system · July 21, 2021, 8:53am

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