Expectations for Enhance in 2026: Page 2 - Enhance Control Panel

Expectations for Enhance in 2026

gmakhs

DracoBlue even if he is there is a limit on whasy a person can do, direct the company , support , forum etc , I would like to focus why they lost another developer this year after V12 so total loss 2 down to 3 from 5.

Also the company is very low on cash 1500 I would expect more ,

And there is a significant investment loss
£3.11m = accumulated losses over the company’s lifetime (total losses to date).
FY2025 loss ≈ £200k (increase from £2.91m to £3.11m).

Adam

gmakhs

This is a normal balance sheet for a company in our position - we invested millions of pounds in the development of Enhance long before Enhance became cash flow positive in 2025.

Unlike some other panels, we are not funded by venture capital or private equity which means nobody is forcing us to raise prices or to sell the company. The only debt is a director's loan which is owed to me personally.

gmakhs

Adam my biggest issue is the reduce in team members , lack of QA as it seems due to pressure , and the slow progress on bug fixes, I am sure you have enough to sustain the company , and also the other investor seems wealthy enough , but what about the team shrinkage ?

I am just worried about the feature of a tool I use to make my own living not trying to offend you , and as you can also see most of us complain for half baked features .

adem

The conversation here has really caught my attention.
I think these are important issues for Enhance to be sustainable and to be able to compete.
If I wanted to add something, I would think that more meetings and planning are needed for the features to be added to the panel.
If I see a new feature, knowing that it is close to its final version would give me confidence.
Also, making existing features work better shouldn't be relegated to the background compared to adding new features.

Adam

gmakhs

The employee count published on the statutory accounts for Enhance Hosting Automation Ltd indicates the number of direct employees and does not include contractors or employees hired through a separate legal entity. It also doesn't include me.

gmakhs

Adam understood, but that doesn't explain the lack of quality control and thought in the latest features , and the very slow updates roll out , if feels (and I am saying feels because I have no way to know directly ), that there is not enough manpower .

A good example is the file manager overwriting files, which it's been there since 12-14 months now , the latest dedicated packages feature etc

JohnB

gmakhs A good example is the file manager overwriting files, which it's been there since 12-14 months now , the latest dedicated packages feature etc

Wouldn't even take 30 minutes to fix that file maanger overwriting files when decompressing. Its literally a param passed to the terminal command. Add a checkbox for setting overwrite behaviour or a prompt and pass/not pass the param.

Its not like its a complex bug where only a senior dev could find it and it would takes hours and hours.

They don't have venture capital forcing their hand but most of their profit is coming from some major hosting providers. Those will force their hand implicitly because when they say they need X feature, they get X feature.

I'd bet the overwriting changed because a major provider wanted it to overwrite by default...

gmakhs

JohnB

so why its not added yet? ain't it strange since is so easy to have to have both that we have been waiting for more than a year?

marowi

I'm not quite as negative as some people here and am actually satisfied with Enhance. I come from Plesk and really like Enhance's multi-server approach. We use it as a hosting stack in our agency. So for web development and customer sites, not a large hosting business. The only thing I really miss compared to Plesk is better email features. For example, learning spam filters. But Adam already said that this will come in the near future. So I'm optimistic.

rdbf

marowi For example, learning spam filters. But Adam already said that this will come in the near future.

It's a 5 minute fix with mailsieve. Near future could mean in 2+ years, plenty of examples here.

JohnB

gmakhs Because you don't matter. Neither do I. Only what big coorperations want matters and here we get "We understand bluh bluh, we really do value community feedback here is the most garbage implementation of NodeJS, be happy"

DracoBlue

S3 backups are still not being performed according to the schedule. I reported this a long time ago, and it still hasn’t been fixed to this day.

Adam

JohnB

Please elaborate on why the Node.js feature is "garbage". It's been hugely popular and we have had very little negative feedback. All constructive feedback is welcome.

gmakhs

Adam No git hub support / doesn't limit max cpu and ram node process runs outside cggroup limmits, those are the issues i detected after testing for 5 minutes, havent test further

mike

Adam one thing i would like to see is the ability to run commands and see the output like plesk so we can avoid giving ssh access to the clients.

JohnB

Adam No good control over things like autorestart, start, stop etc. Like sure technically you have Node implemented but from the interface its so limited I'm better off just setting up pm2 and git on a VPS... Others have pointed out more issues.

I'll be honest I didn't test very far just like gmakhs, because what I saw in 15 minutes was very disappointing. If I was selling "NodeJS support" to a customer what's in the panel now I would frame as "here is the minimal version first draft beta, we will be adding more features soon" I wouldn't frame it as "we have NodeJS support now".

While I'm on the subject its really the same issue that Nginx has. Technically its supported but you can't even edit configs properly from the interface. My honest feedback is I call that halfassed and IMHO thats a bad look for a panel because it makes people wonder what else is halfassed (ie security).

mike

gmakhs i don't think its related to the node implementation. we need github ui also to avoid giving users ssh access also 🙂

gmakhs

mike indeed its not directly related, but most if not all panels offering node, do also offer git support, choosing branch, commit etc to make life easier. Git support overall would be great, also if the log screen updated in real time on node

DracoBlue

JohnB I also wanted to use Nginx, but I can’t because Enhance Panel has limitations that haven’t been resolved to this day.

Adam

JohnB No good control over things like autorestart, start, stop etc. Like sure technically you have Node implemented but from the interface its so limited I'm better off just setting up pm2 and git on a VPS... Others have pointed out more issues.

You have complete control over those things. If set to automatic, the app will be started and restarted if it exits for any reason. If you want to stop the app which was started by Enhance, set it to manual. When you want Enhance to start/monitor it again, set it to automatic.

Git integration (automatic tracking of a particular branch/tag) is a completely separate feature to Node.js support.

We were able to reproduce the issue with cgroups not being applied to node.js on container restart. It's very intermittent and is caused by a race condition. The fix for this is in 12.14.2.

What other functionality are you looking for and what other problems have you experienced?

JohnB

DracoBlue Yup its so frustrating because these are not complicated changes its reading and writing to config files and reloading Nginx config mostly but it gets completely ignored because the big customers of Enhance don't care about it... Same with NodeJS improvements and git integration. None of this is groundbreaking complex code never done before.

themew

DracoBlue We're about to make the move to Enhance, however most if not all the sites we're managing are Nginx with custom nginx.conf files. Can you describe or link to the limitations we can expect with Nginx?

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