What is the best open-source web hosting control panel?

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The Best 1 of 16 OptionsWhy?

Best open-source web hosting control panel	Price	Last Updated
93 ISPConfig	-	Jul 26, 2022
85 Webmin	-	Aug 9, 2022
71 Vesta	-	Mar 6, 2022
-- plesk onyx	-	Jun 25, 2022
66 aaPanel	-	Jul 26, 2022

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15 Other Options Considered

Vesta

Top Pro

Low memory consumption

It's possible to run a full stack server with only 512MB. See More

Top Con

Abandoned by developer

No updates from developer in quite some time See More

IntelligentHephaestus's Experience

OK I liked Vesta I gave it a chance. It was a little behind on implementing IPV 6 and the SSL certificates could have been implemented better. This is a great control panel that we should rally around and demand the the developers polish it up and make us all proud. See More

Top Pro

Easy to install

It's literally a cut and paste installation and for all linux distros such as Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS. See More

Top Con

Dead

CuriousQuangeio's Experience

Leider lassen sich keine Subdomians anlegen und mit den DNS Einträgen. auch kein PHP oder zu wenig. Das gefällt mir überhaupt nicht. See More

Top Pro

Easy to modify

Top Con

Not stable

CommunicativeAbgal's Experience

Good open source product See More

Top Con

Not mature from data migration perspective

Not mature from the data migration perspective. All of this hosting panel lacks seamless migration. The option to migrate web domain data from one host to another is missing. See More

NeighborlySerket's Experience

Easy to use, easy to install See More

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plesk onyx

Top Pro

Ease of use

Top Con

Not Open Source

IntelligentHephaestus's Experience

Given the price, Plesk is my all time favorite hosting panel. It does almost everything without one tinkering with a console. Not only is it full featured, it does everything very well. See More

Top Pro

WordPress Toolkit

CourteousUkko's Experience

using it for years .. stable and powerful for a webdev See More

Top Pro

Many Extension to choose

Top Pro

Docker Support

You can easily manage remote and local Docker containers, run images available on Docker hub, and build or customize your own Docker image. See More

Top Pro

Multi-Server Support

Top Pro

GIT support

Top Pro

OS agnostic

Top Pro

Security features

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aaPanel

Top Pro

Simple, stable

It took me much less time to setup my servers with aaPanel than all other control panels. I've been using it for some years now and I'm always happy. See More

Top Con

Ugly codebase

IntelligentHephaestus's Experience

Simple isn't intuitive and doesn't work for me, See More

Top Pro

Very customizable and simple

This is the control panel that I have been using for months and have had no problems with it. It is quite simple to use and highly customizable. See More

Top Con

It has no Reverse Proxy

It doesn't have reverse proxy support yet. Although recently they have just added OpenLiteSpeed and that is a great advance to not have to be configuring rules in Nginx every so often. See More

ThoughtfulTusholi's Experience

Just Great! See More

Top Con

Chinese

SincereAmphitrite's Experience

Ugly codebase, terrible installation, looks like top-indian developers lays their hands on it See More

MethodicalSjofn's Experience

I've tried allmost all control panels to evaluate the rmost effectiv CP to manage many servers. aaPanel was the best choice, especially because of its stability and simplicity. See More

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Virtualmin

Top Pro

Lets you quickly have a good update-to-date server that hosts multiple sites with little fuss

You can use it to: Host multiple types of websites (blogs, shopping carts) Host a mail server with zero problems sending/receiving from the Google. Have customized backups to a remote server Use your second instance as a slave DNS server Use CSF firewall, which is integrated (as a plugin) See More

Top Con

Pretty clunky and lacks polish

It's not the prettiest product out there, but if you intend to either put your own front end on it, or just use it for non "mums & dads", then it's great. See More

IntelligentHephaestus's Experience

I feel like virtual man is the Swiss army knife of control panels. Yes he will have to break out the console and you will have to look up the documentation ... But it is fairly good and by George it's free! See More

Top Con

The option to migrate web domain data from one host to another is missing

All of this hosting panel lacks on seamless migration. The option to migrate web domain data from one host to another is missing. See More

WiseRugiewit's Experience

That is wrong, there is an option for migrating from all common panels See More

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Ajenti

ResponsiblePiltzintecuhtli's Experience

Could not run it cause uses too much resources See More

Centos Web Panel

Top Pro

PHP Version Selector

Easy for users to select select version per directory. See More

Top Con

Not open source at all

http://centos-webpanel.com/terms-of-service As of Oct 6, 2021 Terms of Service Control Web Panel License Info This is free software presented to the public by the software developer. It is free to use by everyone, however it is not allowed to modify or use any part of the code for any 3rd party application without a written authorization and consent of the main developer. See More

OpinionatedTantalus's Experience

Was not a functional as I first thought. See More

Top Pro

Easy to Secure your Server

With Firewall, Login firewall, Web Application Firewalls, Mod Security, all easily configured and managed. See More

Top Con

Many problems with php-fpm and BIND service, not OPEN for ALL

IntelligentHephaestus's Experience

It works! Accepts IPV6's and does a fairly good god at implementing Let's Encrypt certs. See More

Top Pro

Simple SSL Certs

LetsEncrypt out of the box or upload commercial Certs. See More

Top Con

php-fpm not working

At default config, php-fpm doesn't work. See More

MightyFerentina's Experience

The control panel is nice, and they have made many improvements and changes to the user interface. The panel uses way less memory on the server and gets the job done. It works far much better than even the biggest control panels. See More

Top Pro

Beautiful user interface

The user interface has been updated to a modern looking version that works well and is seamless. See More

Top Con

It is a HUGE behemoth, not suitable for small VM's

You need 4 to 10 gigs. There is a way to manually install and select only what you need. See More

CalmGersemi's Experience

it craseh, no live support See More

Top Pro

For newbie and for pro

Top Con

Confidentiality and suspicion

If you do not have the chance to use a different panel, you can use this one. Also, this panel is suitable for data theft. Because their code is hidden and you don't know what they are doing in the background. It also uses a lot of RAM and CPU. There is a possibility it's mining BTC or copying your systems. See More

kadybee's Experience

Moved to Centos Web Panel several months ago and run a few instances of it now. It works well and is priced right - free or $10 per annum for Pro version with added features. There is much to like about its flexibility and intuitive ease of use. See More

Top Pro

Combination of Web Server configs per Domain / site

Includes: Nginx, Apache and Varnish in PHP-FPM or CGI versions in any combination or single. See More

Top Con

Not mature from data Migration perspective

Not mature from data Migration perspective. All of this hosting panel lacks on seamless migration. The option to migrate web domain data from one host to another is missing. See More

UnbiasedAmurru's Experience

CentOS Web Panel is definitely not open source. http://centos-webpanel.com/terms-of-service See More

Top Pro

Customizable

Varnish, Nginx, Apache, multiple PHP, vhost editor, etc. See More

Top Con

Terrible support

GraciousBasmu's Experience

php-fpm not work with default configuration. no free support. Nobody care that you buy PRO and sometthing not work like describet at wiki. See More

Top Pro

Comes with a File manager out if the box

The panel has a modern and advanced file manager for both admin and user panel. See More

Top Con

Still not able to run php7.4

Top Pro

Code Locked

At first you might not like that much of the code is obfuscated (ioncube) and that integrity checks overwrite some conf changes. However, this makes it so that it's difficult to break the basics. The CWP team ensures its integrity and reliability and you still have enough flexibility to personalize the server a little. See More

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Froxlor

IntelligentHephaestus's Experience

I immediately loved this program and I wanted so bad for it too work. Maybe I just had a bad day, but nothing seemed to work right. That doesn't mean this product doesn't have an awful lot of potential. It does. See More

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ZesleCP - Free Linux Web Hosting Control Panel

Top Pro

It is intuitive and very easy to use

The product is not free. However, they have a very fair pricing plan at $2. See More

Top Con

They are working on implementing IPV6, and hopefully an easier way to secure the host name

With a little work, this product could be even better than Direct Admin. See More

IntelligentHephaestus's Experience

This product is coming of age and isn't going away anytime soon See More

Top Con

Only free with 1 domain

HelpfulEunostus's Experience

Does not have essential items for a panel,, most needed features listed as under development They take entire site and repository down to update. See More

WittyToutatis's Experience

Unresponsive support, poorly supported product by Indian developers See More

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i-MSCP

UnbiasedRaetTawy's Experience

EOL See More

OptimisticVerminus's Experience

End of Life. Unsupported anymore See More

ZPanel

Top Con

Discontinued

PerfectPeitho's Experience

Dead project See More

Top Con

Dead project

ReliableTuoni's Experience

Excessively slow development. It seems to be abandoned. I do not know for sure. See More

Top Con

Lack of development

It's being developing very slowly. See More

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Hestia Control Panel

Top Pro

Made with love & pride by the open-source community from around the world

Top Pro

Hestia is under active development now

Sentora

IntelligentHephaestus's Experience

It was off to a great start but appears all but abandoned. See More

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ISPConfig

Top Pro

Lightweight

Top Con

Poorly named users for clients and websites

When you create your first "client" they are given a system user name but this name doesn't appear when using the command line. Instead they are called client1, then client2... etc. When you add a domain to any client then it gets its own user as well but the first web site gets web1, then web2... etc. This becomes incredibly confusing very quickly and creates lots of gotchas. See More

BrilliantImentet's Experience

Great control panel installed on VPS and Debian 11 See More

Top Pro

Support PHP 7+

Top Con

Bad support

Even if you pay those 5 Eur for the doc, and after that you ask for help with install, there's no answer. See More

CourageousPhylonoe's Experience

This See More

Top Pro

Pleasent interface

Top Con

Not postgresql

TactfulBelobog's Experience

Using it on a VPS at Vultr installed on Ubuntu 18.04 with 1GB RAM and it works great! See More

Top Pro

Admin, reseller, client panel

Top Con

Not mature from data Migration perspective

Not mature from data Migration perspective. All of this hosting panel lacks on seamless migration. The option to migrate web domain data from one host to another is missing. See More

LearnedOgma's Experience

File Manager is not yet designed FTP does not work so I required to build a separate ftp to handle the web upload which was irritating See More

PersistentPassalos's Experience

Funciona bien, apache, mysql y letsencrypt See More

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The Best 1 of 16 OptionsWhy?

My Recommendation for ISPConfig

My Recommendation for ISPConfig

Lightweight

Poorly named users for clients and websites

Support PHP 7+

Bad support

Pleasent interface

Not postgresql

Admin, reseller, client panel

Not mature from data Migration perspective

15 Other Options Considered

My Recommendation for Webmin

My Recommendation for Webmin

Ease

Too much bloat

My Recommendation for Vesta

My Recommendation for Vesta

Low memory consumption

Abandoned by developer

Easy to install

Dead

Easy to modify

Not stable

Not mature from data migration perspective

My Recommendation for plesk onyx

My Recommendation for plesk onyx

Ease of use

Not Open Source

WordPress Toolkit

Many Extension to choose

Docker Support

Multi-Server Support

GIT support

OS agnostic

Security features

My Recommendation for aaPanel

My Recommendation for aaPanel

Simple, stable

Ugly codebase

Very customizable and simple

It has no Reverse Proxy

Chinese

My Recommendation for Virtualmin

My Recommendation for Virtualmin

Lets you quickly have a good update-to-date server that hosts multiple sites with little fuss

Pretty clunky and lacks polish

The option to migrate web domain data from one host to another is missing

My Recommendation for Ajenti

My Recommendation for Ajenti

My Recommendation for Centos Web Panel

My Recommendation for Centos Web Panel

PHP Version Selector

Not open source at all

Easy to Secure your Server

Many problems with php-fpm and BIND service, not OPEN for ALL

Simple SSL Certs

php-fpm not working

Beautiful user interface

It is a HUGE behemoth, not suitable for small VM's

For newbie and for pro

Confidentiality and suspicion

Combination of Web Server configs per Domain / site

Not mature from data Migration perspective

Customizable

Terrible support

Comes with a File manager out if the box

Still not able to run php7.4

Code Locked

My Recommendation for Froxlor

My Recommendation for Froxlor

My Recommendation for GNUPanel

My Recommendation for GNUPanel

My Recommendation for ZesleCP - Free Linux Web Hosting Control Panel

My Recommendation for ZesleCP - Free Linux Web Hosting Control Panel

It is intuitive and very easy to use

They are working on implementing IPV6, and hopefully an easier way to secure the host name

Only free with 1 domain

My Recommendation for i-MSCP

My Recommendation for i-MSCP