Hi everybody,

I decided to open-source BananaPanel under the GPL.

I've always wanted to make an open-source project, and this was a great opportunity to do it. Free content management systems are nothing new, but BananaPanel has an architecture that is unlike most others; you can run it as a server from one location and host your websites anywhere else in the world. This is a big deal for developers, and here's why:

Most contract IT companies who make websites for clients develop their own CMS systems and code libraries that they reuse from one project to the next. The problem is that over time they have different versions of these things out in the wild. When Client A from five years ago comes back with a problem, the chances that a.) the developer who made their site is still with the company and b.) that the code in that site looks anything like what the company is currently working with are both darn near zero.

BananaPanel, or a system based on its architecture, can solve this problem since all of the content is hosted from a single server, as are the applications used to edit that content. You can't have out-of-date versions of the software floating around since every user is using the most up-to-date version automatically. Meanwhile, the customer's website itself can be hosted anywhere they want.

I'll post the SourceForge links when it goes up.

Update: Here you go!