I think it's a nice idea for presenting BitShares to another niche of users (power admins) and giving them easy deployment options. I would support your efforts here with my votes.
Is there anything analogous to this in the Bitcoin space? i.e. a wallet deployment script baked into one of these sys admin products like Cpanel?
How successful was adoption of that idea, if so?
Thanks for the feedback robrigo!!
To answer your question, no, doesn't look like anybody ever made that attempt.
Keep in mind it's not just a wallet for admins... its for their customers too. Many of them are resellers or unmanaged and their customers use their cpanel accounts themselves. So this would reach not just the admins.. but their customers as well if the admins wanted it too.
Does that help clarify?
Ahhh gotcha. Isn't it possible for a customer's web wallet to be compromised via a rogue admin that they were buying the resold software through? I guess this is no different from using a VPS that a company could possibly have back door access into.
What would be the typical use case for a customer using a resold cpanel account? Would the admin they bought it from typically have access to their box?
Also, AFAIK there is only a CLI client, no complete web wallet yet. But I think jcalfee is working on the js for a web wallet.
Is your project assuming the web wallet will be built off the bitshares-js code?
Hosting environments with cpanel are generally shared environments. Resellers and shared accounts alike are all on the same box. Typical box will have anywhere from 300 to 1000 accounts on it.
Yes.. the project assumes the development of the web-wallet at this stage. If however we find that holding up our project we might then pick that up as part of what we work on or seek out alternatives.. perhaps even link the cpanel to the clients own CLI client.
Cpanel is a starting point for most website owners with many features and pre-install scripts they often rely on for building their sites and sometimes managing them. They use it for SSL installations, email creation, and now we are introducing the bitshares wallet... first as a potential means for the admin to charge customers bitUSD..but also as a means for customers to possibly accept Bitshares/assets on their websites.
I understand there are cart solutions out there and the like.. but for a lot of site owners (these are not tech savvy folks.. and they do make the majority) they will look at what they can do in their cpanel to get something installed and stick to it. For the more savvy ones, this will also be useful for making it easier to setup customers. This might sound strange if you know about server admin, but speaking from experience, this is how the majority of folks out there go about things for themselves.
So with the rough number of cpanel servers worldwide, this would penetrate a space where millions of eyeballs turn to for their website admin.
As mentioned, cpanel would just be the start.. we will move into other control panels and can be used in vanilla installs as well.
Hope I answered the questions.