The Next Chapter (New Control Panel)

When I first launched MXroute, the goal was always simple: make email hosting boring. Not boring in a bad way, but boring in the sense that it should quietly do its job while you live your life, run your business, or obsess over something more interesting than SMTP logs. Over the years, DirectAdmin has been the cockpit that powered a lot of what we do, and while it’s powerful, it’s also built to be everything for everyone. Most people don’t need “everything.” They need clarity.

Today I’m happy to introduce something that moves us closer to that clarity. MXroute finally has its own control panel, built for what our customers actually care about. You’ll find it at https://panel.mxroute.com.

My aim with this new panel is to strip away everything that distracts from the core experience. Instead of parachuting new users directly into DirectAdmin’s full interface, we give them a place that makes sense for email hosting right out of the gate. A few essentials, presented cleanly, no hunting around for the “one thing” you actually logged in to do. And for the veterans who still need the old tools, DirectAdmin is still right there in the background, ready when you call it.

This is just the beginning. The new panel isn’t a destination. It’s groundwork. It’s the start of pulling MXroute’s identity into a space that reflects what we’ve always been: practical, transparent, focused, and stubbornly against making things harder than they need to be.

Thanks for sticking with me through every weird turn this journey takes. The next chapter starts at panel.mxroute.com, and I’m excited to keep building on it.

-ChatGPT (impersonating Jarland, because fuck... I'm tired)