The team is made up of people from all over the world, below is a listing of the current ZPanel team members. The ZPanel project requires the support of various teams and each with their own areas of responsibility.

We pride ourselves on developing and providing well written and stable software which reflects the qaulity of the work from our team members. If you would like to chat to any of our team members then please visit the forums or check out their blog's using the links below.

Chris Learmouth - Project Co-Owner, Technical Support & Theme designer.

Bobby Allen - Project Co-Owner, Head ZPanel Developer.

Chris Chambers - Zpanel Project Chief-of-Staff.

Bob Trollop - Head of Technical Support.

Andy Phillips - Technical Support.

Tom Gates - Technical Support.

Junious Norris - Technical Support.

Kevin Andrews - Technical Support

Please use the above links to view infomation regarding our team members.

The ZPanel originated in the United States of America nearly 10 years ago, It was originally developed by Kris Anderson and as far as we are aware the first stable release of the software was ZPanel 2.0 which was developed for servers running both *NIX and Windows operating systems. Kris Anderson and his small group of developers later released a fully re-coded version of ZPanel (ZPanel 2.5) which incorporated new features including template support and was the 'stable' release for over 5 years.

In 2004 Kris Anderson decided that he didn't have enough time to work on the project any longer so the development split into two channels, Kris Anderson handed the project over to Chris Learmouth from Newcastle (England, UK) who took control of ZPanel (The Microsoft Windows Version) and Meisam Muller a developer who worked along side with Kris Anderson forked a Linux only control panel which was renamed 'RapidCP'.

In 2007 Bobby Allen then joined forces with Chris Learmouth and between them they released a brand new version of the ZPanel software (ZPanel 3.0.0) which Bobby Allen had completely developed from scratch, ZPanel 3.0.0 used completely new code and was released as a truely 'stable' release.

The new features in ZPanel 3.0.0 included Apache Virtual hosts, Email management both Mailboxes and Mail forwards where implemented into the software.

On 28th November 2009 The ZPanel team released there brand new version of ZPanel after being in Beta a week, ZPanel 4.0.0 included an 'all-in-one' installer simular to cPanel's in which it would completely install and configure ZPanel 4.0.0 with Apache, PHP, MySQL and FileZilla Server.

On the 10th of Decemember 2009 Project Dalas was annouced, Project Dalas is the code name for what is known as ZPanel 5, The development team are currently hard at work writing a completely new code base to support even greater functionality.

On the 24th January 2010 the ZPanel staff had an online meeting and we had a restructure of the team. The main changes was that Bobby Allen now comes off providing support and will now concentrate his talents on development of Zpanel, Vantz Stockwell is now head of Technical support and will report directly to the Zpanel Chief of Staff Chris Chambers. Vantz now has two new members, Bob Trollop and Andy Phillips who are now working in Support in various places such as the forums, IRC and our other support based systems.

On the 1st February 2010, The first Beta release of ZPanel 5 was released for public testing.

At 16:00 GMT on the 5th of February 2010, ZPanel 5.0.0 was released as the first stable release of ZPanel 5. After being in constant development by Bobby Allen since the 16th of January 2010, ZPanel 5 brings with it some lovely new features that have not yet been seen in previous ZPanel releases such as 'Reseller' support and translation support. The ZPanel team are very excited about the new release and believe that this release really is the next generation of ZPanel!

On the 9th of February 2010 Vantz Stockwell left full-time involvement on the Zpanel Project, his previous position has now been filled by Bob Trollop as Head of Technical Support for the Zpanel Project. Vantz remains as a contributor to the project.

On the 19th of February 2010 at 12:00 GMT, The ZPanel team launched their new hosted service called OSSDC (Open-source software development community) which hosts a community forum for discussing Open-source software, development and operating systems; overtime OSSDC.net will also offer development tutorials too! One of the main features of OSSDC.net however is the project hosting service where memebers of the public can register an Open-source project and will then get all the services for managing, developing and distrubuting their software to a global audience.

On the 3rd of July 2010, Bobby Allen (Head of ZPanel development) annouced new features that will be shipped with the latest major release of ZPanel (ZPanel 5.1.0) which would enable a master server to centrally monitor multiple ZPanel servers) the new software (which is seperate to that of ZPanel) and is currently in development is aimed at premium hosting companies running one or more ZPanel servers. One of the many new features in ZPanel 5.1.0 allows the server admin to specify a 'Master Server hostname/IP address' of where hourly statistics are then sent too which are then nicely formatted in the new central monitoring software.

On the 7th July 2010 the ZPanel team released ZPanel 5.1.0 which included some features enabling Server Admin's and/or Resellers the ability to 'Shadow' client accounts as well as recursive deletion of client accounts and full bandwidth restrictions also included several bug fixes and features that were previously missing from ZPanel.