Best Free/OpenSource Control Panels for your VPS / Dedicated Server

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/

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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/

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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/
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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

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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/

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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

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KloxoMR, is that like a remake of the classic Kloxo that was buggy and unstable?

 

Hope you are able to test aapanel(https://www.aapanel.com). And keep to update.