12.24.0 now available

Zoinkies

microvax I always found the docker version of enhance better lol.

enhance_dan

I want to state I really do like Enhance so much better than cPanel or DirectAdmin or Plesk. And our customers like Enhance too as they say it's less bloated than those prior mentioned control panels.

I also like Adam's responsiveness to offer support and fix issues that pop up quickly when I submit tickets, that's really appreciated.

I really do like the clustering ability of Enhance, it works perfect for what we are building.

There's going to be a "but" though, and that is I agree with what others have said in this post. Who asked for OpenClaw? It wasn't on the roadmap, and we don't need it for our use case at all, so that new feature does nothing for us, whereas a lot of Feature Requests and Enhancement requests that have been on the forum or roadmap for quite some time (years in some cases) really would make things better for our use of Enhance and for our customers use of Enhance. Some are just simple Quality of Life improvements that would make the panel better to work with for us and our customers.

Are only the big providers getting what they want added at the expense of those just starting out with Enhance (like us)?

I get that there might not be a big development team here, and i'm not 100% on board with everything AI yet, but it seems like AI could be utilized to help in this regard to get some of these backlogged Feature Requests and Enhancements pushed out faster without having to bring on extra developers.

I'm just having to do a lot of manual work (or creating my own workarounds) here that I wouldn't have to be doing using cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. And that is unfortunate because I absolutely don't want to use those panels (and neither do our customers), so I'm stuck between a rock and hard place.

Adam

Thank you everyone for your feedback as always.

We're aware of most of the competing panels, those which are "vibe coded" and those which are not. I would encourage you to try using them in production and then make your decision. Enhance has been in large scale production use for years and is mature, well tested and reliable.

gmakhs Adam has stated that they outsource development,

That is absolutely not true, we don't outsource development. We do use contractors and Enhance Hosting Automation Ltd is our trading entity which does not directly employ staff.

gmakhs A large part of that is listed as director loans of £1,533,209.

That is a loan from myself to the company which paid for a lot of the initial development costs before Enhance was profitable.

enhance_dan Are only the big providers getting what they want added at the expense of those just starting out with Enhance (like us)?

We do listen to our larger partners when it comes to development focus. In the case of the OpenClaw feature, this is something that many large hosts are offering as a service and we wanted to enable Enhance customers to compete with them.

Kosta All software companies move to AI coding for speed and costs, Enhance seems it’s against AI…
Enhance office door: No AI allowed behind this point 😂

We're not against AI, we use it for internal scripts, testing and things which are not part of the core product. But we value maintainability and stability - we will always have humans who understand every facet of the codebase.

mike

openpanel is a mess..

gmakhs

mike Soon we are going to see vibe-coded panels with more features than Enhance.

Enhance’s latest filed accounts show the company had an average of only 3 employees for the year ending 31 March 2025. The same accounts show only £1,533 cash at bank and in hand, net current liabilities of £1,507,556, and net liabilities/shareholders’ funds of -£1,477,006. A large part of that is listed as director loans of £1,533,209.

Adam has stated that they outsource development, but from the outside we have not seen any real difference in delivery speed. The promised faster development after the v11 to v12 transition has not really materialized.

This data is from Companies House / GOV.UK filings. At the beginning of 2026, Seb De Lemos also ceased to be a person with significant control, according to the company’s filing history.

I will wait for the next report, and I hope to at least see more employees, but right now smaller teams or even vibe-coded panels may realistically start catching up faster, because users care about shipped features, not excuses.

PradeepC

gmakhs I will wait for the next report, and I hope to at least see more employees, but right now smaller teams or even vibe-coded panels may realistically start catching up faster, because users care about shipped features, not excuses.

Users might care about features, but vibe coded panels would have security properly built in?
We too are not very happy with the development speed and features introduced, still waiting for a directadmin importer and improved Plesk importer among a lot of things, but security is also one stand point with a control panel, and we are happy overall with the security of Enhance.

Yes, Enhance should really concentrate on bringing more features that people actually want, instead of only listening to big companies in the WHG group that are their biggest customers.

marowi

gmakhs I wouldn't want to use a vibe coded hosting panel. It already annoys me with a lot of WordPress plugins. There are constantly major updates, and things go wrong more and more often. I don't need that with my hosting, too.

mike

gmakhs i really don’t care about enhance loans .. financials or employees as i already have 10 people in the office with their families to worry about.

As you were saying vibe coded apps & websites has skyrocketed and also thankfully the support.

Which means i need a panel to help us reduce support not increase it. Every time we move a customer to enhance i don’t get good feedback. So we are using it for our own stuff and a handful of clients.

Plus you can’t build everything by yourself. You need other businesses to offload stuff and responsibilities to unless ur a 1 man do it all hero that plays with his balls all day .. wants to do everything and thinks he is running a business…

On the other hand i understand your worries. I have done my part…. I pass the feedback.

I have been here 4 years and ppl still request the same things … maybe the big providers don't use git , redirects, nginx configs, logs 🤷

Zoinkies

PradeepC Yea, this argument about vibe coding have security issues is only a issue with people who don’t know how to code any language to begin with and don’t know what to prompt to find issues. I’ve vibe coded a few projects, and they’re spotless with Fable. But, on the same hand I go in and look myself, and I have a masters in compsci and know Rust like the back of my hand now.

Fable is so competent, especially now with vibe coders also creating skills and workflows that highlight these issues, it won’t be more than 6 months and it will be a none issue.

Even look at none vibe coded projects, there’s still loads of issues in the most perfect codebase from time to time, it’s unavoidable. Pick and choose your battles, wait for features that dont come or find something else.

Kosta

All software companies move to AI coding for speed and costs, Enhance seems it’s against AI…
Enhance office door: No AI allowed behind this point 😂

DracoBlue

Enhance in the v11 days had much better developers, who have probably since left. Back then, updates were released almost every month and introduced a huge number of new features. Now it feels more like the project is just surviving, as if a single person is working on it in their spare time. The features that are being released these days simply aren’t as polished or as well thought out as they should be.

gmakhs

DracoBlue all that is true, and have been mentioned countless times in the forum , enhance is not interested on being transparent, so each one needs to judge If enhance works for their company and either stay knowing the risks / problems / delayes or just use another solution, there are plenty , even I stopped complaining as much as I used too 🙂

gmakhs

Adam I believe most of the issues mentioned on the forums could be "fixed" if enhance has a framework for custom implementations within enhance - plugins - one click install apps and if features where better policed .

With that most people could solve their own problems .

Omar

mth drew the right line — nobody's entitled to Enhance's financials, but customers who built businesses on this are entitled to communication about product direction. that got buried under 70 posts of speculation.

the frustration isn't about OpenClaw. it's about having zero mechanism to influence priorities. right now there's only one: be a large partner (fair enough, that's how the bills get paid) everything else is forum posts that may or may not land.

three ideas came up that nobody connected:
gmakhs — plugin/extension framework, community closes gaps without waiting on core
nick-a — sponsored dev, pay for a roadmap item, ships to everyone
nhybgtvfr — community poll, one item at a time, voted, released, repeat

same idea at different cost levels. all three convert frustration into capacity. any one of them changes the dynamic from "we don't matter" to "we have a lever."

the framework is already in Approved. the sponsorship needs no architecture. the poll takes an afternoon.

Adam not asking for headcount or financials. just: which of these is feasible? that answer alone does more for confidence here than the next 5 releases.

PaulN

Be careful what you wish for as the last thing you would want is another cPanel or Plesk and some of the requests seem to want to push it that way.

And there is absolutely nothing wrong with the UI in my opinion and every single customer we have moved to it is very happy with it for it's uncluttered easy to use design.

iotivedo

Honestly, I don't get it.
I suspect some people are either misusing Enhance CP or simply aren't aware they're comparing it to a completely different kind of product. I went and looked at the two web panels mentioned in this topic, and frankly, they're totally different products from Enhance CP.

I don't know if they're more "feature-rich", but honestly, I couldn't care less.
I'd rather have a stable product, not something slapped together by an AI agent run by the corner grocer, and above all, one that stays true to the same clustering philosophy Enhance CP was originally designed around.
If that's not what you're looking for, you're probably after a different product.

I can understand those who keep insisting on getting important features like persistent OpenLiteSpeed configurations, but you can't compare apples to oranges.
I hope Adam doesn't abandon his philosophy and his availability/responsiveness, my company has benefited enormously from switching from cPanel to Enhance CP.

Thanks for the 12.24.0.

enhance_dan

iotivedo

I don't think anybody is arguing that Enhance isn't a fantastic control panel (it is).

I think what some people are frustrated about is that there have been some Feature Requests and Enhancement Requests that have been posted on the forum and the roadmap for quite some some (years in some cases), and those are getting left behind in favor of features that are only being requested by the larger contributors to the project.

I get it, the bills need to get paid and Adam has to balance making those larger contributors happy along with trying to do the same for the smaller contributors.

But overall I'm happy with Enhance, and there's really no way in hell I would switch over to cPanel or Plesk or DirectAdmin. Regarding "vibe-coded" control panels, again I'm not 100% onboard with everything AI yet, but honestly it depends on who is doing the vibe-coding. If it's someone that has zero development experience and just types in "Claude make me a web hosting control panel", then absolutely not, I wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole. However if it's a skilled developer who has been working in the industry for years and already knows how to code, then I would imagine they would know when AI is giving them good results, and when it's making stuff up. I'd also imagine they would know how to audit it. So in that case, I wouldn't mind using that kind of "vibe-coded" panel.

That's why I mentioned in my previous post that I think AI could be utilized here to get those backlogged Feature Requests and Enhancements pushed out faster. Adam clearly knows what he's doing, and I'd trust he could use AI to speed up development work on that older stuff people have been waiting on.

None of the above is criticism, I really like Enhance and Adam is cool. I want to see everything grow here. There are just some small frustrations I have that if given the development time, would really make our use of the Enhance panel that much more enjoyable to work with.

Kosta

Just archive Enhance software and give it to AI.
Then copy all remaining features on the list it’s coming soon…
Give it to AI and in week time whole features get released 😂

nick-a

We love Enhance, the UI, the design, the concept etc, that's not the problem, we just feed a few more quality of life improvements for staff/users as mentioned. The logs and mail ones are bread and butter stuff for larger hosting companies, and they're already on the roadmap, the roadmap just needs to actually be executed a bit quicker if possible.

ferrokot

Upgrade guide link pass to 404 on https://enhance.com/support/release-notes @Adam

Adam

ferrokot

Thank you, link has been fixed.

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