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A Community Perspective on CWP: What’s Working and What Could Improve

I’ve been using CWP (Control Web Panel) for some time now and I want to start by saying that I genuinely like the CWP feature set. It offers a lot of functionality at a very competitive price point and for many users it remains a solid alternative in the server control panel space.

That said, like many others in the community, I believe there are a few areas where CWP could improve—particularly around communication and transparency.

Better Visibility Into Changes and Updates

One of the biggest improvements I’d like to see is a consistently updated changelog after each release. Having a clear, detailed record of what has changed would help users understand new features, bug fixes, and potential impacts on their systems. It also builds trust when users can easily review what’s been modified.

Along similar lines, it would be great to see core services such as Apache, Nginx, MariaDB and other major components updated in a timely manner, especially when older versions become obsolete or reach end-of-life. Staying current is important not just for features, but for security and long-term stability.

Stronger Communication With the Community

Another recurring pain point is communication. When the forum goes down, for example, it would be extremely helpful to see official forum announcements explaining why, even if it’s just a brief status update.

More broadly, I think many users would appreciate regular announcements from the CWP development team about:

* What they are currently working on
* Known issues or outages
* Problems encountered during development
* Estimated timelines where possible

This doesn’t need to be overly detailed—just enough to keep the community informed and reassured.

Avoiding Community “Ghosting”

CWP is a product supported by a paying user base. When users are actively making payments that help keep the product alive, it’s discouraging to feel like the community is being ghosted during periods of silence. Even short updates can go a long way toward maintaining goodwill and confidence in the platform.

A Simple Ask From the Community

Ultimately, I don’t think these requests are unreasonable. Most people in the CWP community who enjoy using the product aren’t asking for perfection—we’re just asking for a bit more visibility into what’s going on behind the scenes.

Clear communication, timely updates, and basic transparency would strengthen the relationship between the development team and the community, and help ensure CWP continues to grow and improve with user trust intact.

CWP has strong potential, and with better communication, it could be even better.

1. The source of that information is directly from CWP via a support ticket I submitted.
You can doubt whatever you want, but that is the answer I received form them.

Source: you. Right...
And about ALL the others things that you said, like the panels without disclosures and changelogs?

Only real problem with the forums is an expired SSL.

What SSL?
SSL is fine.. and is active... no issues are related with that.

And again, you are misleading the point and trying to cover this with another thing without any context...
There is MULTIPLE ISSUES accessing the forum, several times per day, for months. How can you say that is "just SSL", when ANYONE can see that is not?

An example: https://forum.centos-webpanel.com/profile/?u=24987
Can you enter? No, because the SMF is misconfigured.

2. There are many aspects from HTTP, PHP, ModSecurity, etc., but since you don't know, that shows you probably don't use CWP.

(Why everything that a person says is received be you as an attack? jesus.....)

Every thing that you said is software that is IN THE SERVER/OS. Is not related with the control panel used.
You don't even need a panel to use apache, nginx, ModSecurity (but as you make yourself as the only expert, and everyone else is dumb... you already know that).

You can update and customize every single one of that piece of software in ANY server. Even in servers without ANY panel.

Just because CWP "works" when you change something that doesn't say nothing. Every single panel out there also continue to work.
But of course, if was develop to a version X, and you change yourself to version Y, something can or will break... The same thing can happen with CWP also.

3. Yup. You are just a BS poster, @overseer and myself provide a majority of help here.
And I was talking about offering help to CWP also.

All you seem to be doing is posting hate without knowing how CWP really works via GUI and CLI.

And you don't see a issue there? Two members, that are not even in the development team of this panel, are the ONLY THING that still support the community?
And the support is done by guides of "mods/hacks" that are needed to update software that SHOULD BE the developement team of CWP to update?

If you cannot see the issue here, you are completly blind.


"All you seem to be doing is posting hate"
No dude. Hate is someone post a topic about alternatives to CWP, and your "help" is ALWAYS and MORE THAT ONE TIME being toxic and only say: move to another panel.
Just look at your FIRST REPLY here.


Take the point: only you and another one of the users are the "CWP envangelist" and deny that calling everyone else "haters".
EVERY SINGLE OTHER USER at least acknowledge that there are issues with CWP - and IS FINE have issues, is with them that projects evolve!
And provide valid feedbacks and try to help to make CWP better.

1. The source of that information is directly from CWP via a support ticket I submitted.
You can doubt whatever you want, but that is the answer I received form them.

Only real problem with the forums is an expired SSL.

2. There are many aspects from HTTP, PHP, ModSecurity, etc., but since you don't know, that shows you probably don't use CWP.

3. Yup. You are just a BS poster, @overseer and myself provide a majority of help here.
And I was talking about offering help to CWP also.

All you seem to be doing is posting hate without knowing how CWP really works via GUI and CLI.

1. The forum is down frequently. I think it's mostly configuration or code issues. Try opening your profile https://forum.centos-webpanel.com/profile/?area=forumprofile - I get an error.

2. CWP automatically generates SSL certificates. How is it acceptable that this forum doesn't even have that configured?

I think we CWP users should demand more. I'd support them if they doubled the Pro version price, I think they should double the price of the Pro version if the problem is lack of money to pay the development team. But they need to show a more active role: update the website, have someone replying on the forum.

CWP is a great panel with lots of options and it's very cheap. But since it's closed source and the team isn't present, it's not evolving like other panels.

I currently have 7 servers running the Pro version of CWP. I don't want to move to another panel. In the past I used VestaCP and CWP was a step forward. I think this conversation is good, but we should stop attacking people for criticizing CWP. Someone from the CWP team should read this and reply. Everyone here wants the best for CWP.