If you are running a VPS or a Dedicated Server, you must be looking for a Control Panel. Commercial options like cPanel are defiantly good, but for ordinary tasks, or the users are looking for low end machines and a free/cheap a way to manage their Servers, we have several good Open Source/Free Options. I am presenting the 6 most widely used and reliable Control Panels which are a great alternative to cPanel and DirectAdmin. A. VestaCP : This is simply the best i have used. I personally prefer Vesta over other panels. Vesta has once click installation and has an awesome Mordern UI with all that you need : Web Server DNS server Database Server Mail Server FTP Server Nginx out of the box SSL certificates & SNI Wildcard support Configuration Templates DKIM support Fast Backups Easy update manager System Monitoring AntiSpam / Antivirus WHMCS billing support Links : Web : https://vestacp.com/ Documentation : https://vestacp.com/#documentation Support : http://forum.vestacp.com/ Screen : B. Froxlor : This is another control panel with a Clean UI. Froxlor includes several goodies like Web FTP , Advanced SSL etc. Web : https://www.froxlor.org/ Support : https://forum.froxlor.org/ Screen : C. Ajenti : This is a beautiful , open source, web-based control panel that can be used for a large variety of server management tasks. It can install packages and run commands, and you can view basic server information such as RAM in use, free disk space, etc. Documentation : http://support.ajenti.org/ Screen : D. WebMin : This is a tested and very reliable control panel. Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing etc. Web : http://www.webmin.com/ Documentation : http://www.webmin.com/docs.html Support : http://www.webmin.com/community.html Screen : E. CentOS Web Panel ( CWP ) : CWP is a new control panel for centos based servers. I have found it to be relatively slow compares to other panels. But its reliable and it works. The CWP Includes : Apache Web Server (Mod Security + OWASP rules optional) PHP 5.4 (suPHP, SuExec + PHP version switcher) MySQL + phpMyAdmin Postfix + Dovecot + roundcube webmail (Antivirus, Spamassassin optional) CSF Firewall File System Lock (no more website hacking, all your files are locked from changes) Backups (optional) AutoFixer for server Links : Web : http://centos-webpanel.com/ Documentation : http://centos-webpanel.com/installation-instructions Support : http://forum.centos-webpanel.com/ Screen :
F. Another worthy mention is KloxoMR. Mustafa has invested a huge effort in Kloxo and the new products seems reliable and patched. This is special edition (fork) of Kloxo with many features not existing on Kloxo official release (6.1.12+). This fork named as Kloxo-MR (meaning ‘Kloxo fork by Mustafa Ramadhan’) Download/Install : https://github.com/mustafaramadhan/kloxo/ Support : http://forum.mratwork.com Screen :