Web hosting provider Host Color said last week that it had completed development work on a new version of its proprietary NextColor control panel and is currently testing the solution.

The company says the control panel features an improved design and will be much more flexible, with location support and skin functionality. It will also have support for both PHP 5 and 4, a large set of pre-installed applications, advanced database management and other features.

“By writing our own hosting software we want to make our business independent and our service unique,” says Vesselin Drangajov, managing director of Host Color. “The first version of the Web hosting control panel ensured the reliability and the functionality of our servers. Also with NextColor by not depending on the big control panel vendors such as CPanel or Ensim we can fix any technical issues, or update any software that we use as soon as its needed.”

Host Color, based in Delaware, has been developing the latest version of NextColor for six months.