Asked about the panel
The Cue Reseller Panel, asked and answered
What is a streaming control panel?
The software a streaming host’s customers sign in to: it creates their live channels, TV stations, video libraries and radio stations on the streaming server, hands them the encoder settings and players, and keeps each one inside what it paid for. The Cue Reseller Panel is one, installed on your own dedicated server, with resellers between you and the customers.
How does it compare with MediaCP and WMSPanel?
MediaCP is a hosting panel of the same kind: it has resellers, AutoDJ, live, TV and on-demand services, white label and billing modules too, but it runs on Linux only and needs SHOUTcast or Icecast servers for radio, where this panel runs on Windows Server as well and is the radio server itself. WMSPanel is a cloud console for Nimble Streamer: it has no resellers, radio, video libraries or billing modules, and it does not install on your server. The table above has every row.
Which billing systems does it work with?
WHMCS, Blesta, ClientExec and WiseCP, through their modules: they create, suspend, unsuspend and remove services as orders are paid, fall due or are cancelled. Anything else can use the same API with an API key, or listen to the signed webhooks.
Can my resellers use their own brand and domain?
Yes. Each reseller sets a logo, an accent colour, support details and a default language, and can give their customers a panel address on their own domain; its certificate is issued and renewed automatically. The panel can also be set to stop naming the software it runs on.
What does it run on?
A dedicated server with an x86-64 processor. On Linux that means Ubuntu 22.04 or later, Debian 12 or later, or AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or RHEL 9 or later; on Windows, Windows Server 2012 R2, 2019, 2022 or 2025, where one PowerShell command installs the panel. Cue Media Server, which TV Stations and on-demand libraries need, runs on both. On one of our servers we install it for you, on Linux or on Windows Server 2012 R2, 2019, 2022 or 2025 at the same price (on Windows it installs itself the first time Windows starts), and its license is bound to that one machine.
Does it need Cue Media Server?
Not for radio: the panel runs its customers’ radio stations itself, SHOUTcast- and Icecast-compatible, with AutoDJ and live DJs. Live channels run on Cue Media Server or on a Wowza Streaming Engine on the same server, which the panel drives through its REST API: every channel is a Wowza application with its own publishing password, viewer limit and stream targets. TV Stations and on-demand libraries need Cue Media Server. Flussonic is in development.
What happens if the license lapses?
The panel is locked at once, apart from the page where a new key is entered, and resellers and customers see that it is unavailable. Streams keep running for seven more days, so a late payment never takes a viewer off by surprise.