Roadmap

Where Reqad is headed

Reqad is in active early-access development. Here's the build plan step by step, what's working today, and what we're exploring. Plans evolve - this isn't a fixed commitment.

Ready for the next release In progress Next Planned

Secure web login

core ready for the next release
  • Login page for the admin panel, with brute-force protection and automatic firewall bans
  • Two-factor authentication with recovery codes, and passkeys
  • Confirmation before sensitive changes, remembered devices, email codes for new devices and login alerts
  • Firewall allowlist for the panel port, with automatic rollback if you lock yourself out
  • Brute-force protection for webmail logins

Account isolation

core ready for the next release
  • Hardened kernel settings and tighter file permissions between sites
  • Accounts see only their own processes
  • CPU, memory and process limits for SSH, cron and the browser terminal
  • Shell access per account: full, jailed (own home only) or SFTP only
  • MySQL connection limit per account
  • Check and fix the owners and permissions of an account's files, with an undo script
  • Links inside a site's folder are followed only to files the same account owns

Foundations

core ready for the next release
  • Per-account scope, limits and events - the base for hosting packages and the account panel
  • Groundwork for more web server stacks
  • "Needs attention" on the dashboard: certificates, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, PHP versions, WordPress updates, disk, services and backups
  • REST API with scoped, expiring access tokens - accounts, databases, mailboxes, WordPress, services, mail queue and logs (off by default)
  • Visitor stats and bandwidth of every site, counted every hour from the web server logs with no visitor addresses kept, and a Bandwidth Usage page for all accounts
  • Resource usage of every account, checked every minute: CPU, memory, processes, PHP workers, database connections and the limits they reached, and what the rest of the server uses

Deployments

core ready for the next release

Off by default; one switch turns on both.

  • Git deployments from GitHub, GitLab, Gitea or Bitbucket, on every push by signed webhook, with build steps, atomic releases, a health check and one-click rollback
  • Node.js and Python apps, run as the account's own user in their own sandboxed service and served through nginx with SSL and websockets
  • Presets for PHP, Laravel, static sites, Node.js and Python, and managed Node.js and Python versions
  • Install an app's packages with one click (pip into the app's own environment, or npm), and in every Git release by themselves, so a rollback brings back the old packages too
  • The start command found in the code: Django, Flask, FastAPI, Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Express, package.json or a Procfile, with the matching Python or Node.js version
  • Deploy with git push to the server itself

AI integration via MCP

core ready for the next release

Manage your server from your own AI assistant: Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients. Off by default.

  • Connects over SSH, with nothing new opened to the internet; works from Linux, macOS and Windows (PuTTY / Pageant)
  • Server status, what needs attention, logs, the mail queue, services, accounts, databases, mailboxes, deployments and apps
  • WordPress: versions and available updates, core / plugin / theme updates with a database backup first and caches emptied after
  • Tokens for the whole server or one account, read-only or not, expiring; deletes need your confirmation, and every call is logged
  • Connections over HTTPS, for assistants that cannot use SSH

Reqad Hosting Pro

premium ready for the next release
  • Hosting packages: limits for mailboxes, databases, addon domains, subdomains, aliases, cron jobs, SSH keys, deployments and apps, plus session limits, database connections and shell access
  • Disk quotas, and a size for each mailbox with warning mails at 90% and when it is full
  • Monthly bandwidth per account; over it, the package decides: warn, slow the sites down or suspend the account
  • Account suspension: the sites show a suspended page and logins are refused, while mail keeps arriving
  • Dedicated IP addresses per account, IPv4 and IPv6 (also behind NAT): its sites, outgoing mail with a matching reverse DNS, and DNS records
  • nginx in front of Apache with php-fpm: full .htaccess support, static files served by nginx, switch either way
  • Older PHP versions for legacy sites: PHP 5.6, and 5.4 on EL8

Account panel on port 2083

premium in progress

A separate control panel for each hosting account: a familiar card layout, issues that need attention up front with one-click fixes, and WP Toolkit.

  • Home page with what needs attention first, the account's websites and its usage; tool cards you can reorder
  • Sign in with the account's own password, with brute-force protection; the server admin can open any account's panel
  • Two-factor authentication and passkeys for account sign-ins
  • Email: mailboxes, forwarders, autoresponders, filters, spam protection, SPF/DKIM/DMARC checks with one-click fixes, a delivery log, and webmail without a second login
  • Files: file manager with uploads, an editor and zip archives, and disk usage
  • Databases and their users, remote access by IP address, and phpMyAdmin without a second login
  • Domains: addon domains and subdomains, aliases, redirects, free SSL certificates, and email on or off per site
  • PHP version and PHP settings per site
  • Cron jobs with their last and next run and the output of each run
  • Profile: a confirmed contact address and a choice of which messages the account gets
  • WP Toolkit: sites with one-click login, install, updates in the background, security and performance settings, and auto-updates that put plugins and themes back if the site breaks
  • WordPress clone or staging: copy a site to a subdomain, optionally open only to your IP addresses, then push its code and chosen settings back to the live site without overwriting the live database
  • FTP accounts, and self-service backups: download a backup, put back files, a database or deleted emails, with a copy kept of what is replaced
  • DNS zone editor, and the mail provider of each site (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoho Mail or this server) with SPF and DMARC helpers
  • SSH access and SSH keys, a terminal in the browser, and the active sessions with sign-out
  • Git deployments with rollback, and Node.js and Python apps, set up by the account itself
  • Metrics: visitors, page views and bandwidth per site, with top pages, referrers, countries, bots and missing pages
  • Logs per site: every request with filters, search and Live, and the web server's errors grouped by kind with what they mean
  • Resource usage: CPU, memory and processes of each site's PHP, mail and sessions against the account's limits, checked every minute, with the limits it reached, what runs now and a Stop button
  • Translations: Romanian, German, French, Spanish and Chinese

Account-level MCP

premium planned

MCP access for hosting customers, scoped to their own account.

Migration from cPanel

premium planned
  • Import accounts from a cPanel backup archive, with no SSH access to the old server needed
  • Improved migration of whole cPanel/WHM servers

Scanning and protection

core + premium planned
  • Scheduled malware scanning per account with ClamAV and ImunifyAV (premium)
  • ModSecurity web application firewall with the OWASP rules, for nginx first
  • ModSecurity on the Apache web server stacks

Updated 21 October 2026

Available now

  • Hosting accounts, one isolated system account per domain
  • Email - exim, dovecot, Roundcube, SpamAssassin; forwarders & autoresponders
  • DNS via Cloudflare, cPanel or PowerDNS
  • Let's Encrypt SSL for the panel and hosted domains
  • MariaDB databases + phpMyAdmin
  • Multiple PHP versions per account (OPcache, APCu)
  • WordPress one-click install, with Wordfence
  • Backups, cron, SSH keys, browser terminal, service control
  • cPanel transfer / import wizard

Also planned

  • Magento 2 one-click install
  • Built-in CLI tools: wp-cli and magerun-cli
  • Onboarding wizard - connect external DNS & backup servers, install extra PHP versions
  • Automated security patching: patch just the vulnerable code, or update via the package manager
  • Member accounts & subscriptions (premium)
  • Centralized hub to manage multiple Reqad servers from one place premium
  • Integration with external authentication - SSO, LDAP or OAuth premium

Exploring

  • Debian and NixOS support (in addition to Rocky / Alma / RHEL 8 & 9)
  • Translations / multi-language interface
  • Independent external code audit before the first production release
  • Billing-system integrations and multi-instance management (premium)
  • Optional AI assistant in the panel, using your own API key
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