Kloxo (formerly known as Lxadmin) was a free and open-source[1] web hosting control panel for the Red Hat and CentOS Linux distributions.
Kloxo allows the host administrators to run a combination of lighttpd or Apache with djbdns or BIND, and provides a graphical interface to switch between these programs without losing data.
Around this time, another piece of software created by the same vendor – HyperVM – was rumored to have been exploited in a massive attack at the British VAserv budget webhosting company.
It is widely acknowledged by the hacker(s) and parties involved that the core exploit had to do with the administrator of those VPS's reusing the same password on all installs, and not utilizing the SSL security feature.
While Kloxo initially started as a proprietary control panel, Internal issues arose within the company after the death of its CEO.
[5][6] It was later announced on July 10, 2009, that Kloxo and HyperVM would be continued in an open source consortium to be formed by Arthur Thornton, Danny Terweij, and S Bhargava.
In September 2020, a new fork called Kloxo Next Generation (KloxoNG) was released as an upgrade pathway for existing Kloxo_MR users.