Best Web Hosting Control Panels for Linux

As a site owner, it is very difficult to manage multiple sites without a control panel. However, to meet the needs, we need a custom hosting plan.

The hosting control panel is a completely web-based interface that allows you to manage your web services in one place. These web-based control panels can manage email accounts, FTP accounts, file management functions, create subdomains, control disk space, control bandwidth, create backups, and more.

This type of hosting panel offers easy-to-use management software that simplifies the server management process without requiring server administration expertise.

The most famous and powerful control panels are cPanel and Plesk. These two popular panels are paid software and the hosting provider charges a monthly fee to install them on the server.

Luckily, there are several other open source alternative control panels that are free to download that offer similar functionality.

1. cPanel

cPanel is a Unix-based hosting control panel that offers an elegant graphical interface to help you manage your website and hosting accounts quickly and easily. Automation tools are designed to simplify the process of creating a website.

cPanel gives you complete control over various aspects of the website and administration through a standard web browser, and simplifies processes such as creating a database, setting up an email account, autoresponder, and managing website files.

2. Plesk

Plesk is a cPanel-like hosting control panel that allows you to manage your hosting account through a web interface. You can use this panel with VPS, Shared and Dedicated servers.

Plesk also allows you to manage thousands of virtual hosts from a single machine. The control panel allows you to automate many tasks, which in turn reduces costs and resources. It also improves profitability, efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Key features of Plesk:

Create an FTP account for users.
Manage and create email accounts and databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Adding domains and subdomains.
Restoring and backing up files.
Manage DNS and other resources.

3. ISPConfig

ISPconfig is an open source multilingual control panel that allows you to manage multiple servers under one control panel.

ISPConfig is licensed under a BSD license and comes as an open source control panel that is also capable of managing FTP, SQL, BIND DNS, databases and virtual servers.

Main features of ISPConfig:

Manage multiple servers from one control panel.
Easy to use web interface for admin, reseller and customer login.
Management of web servers such as Apache and Nginx.
Setting up mirroring and clusters.
Management of email and FTP servers.

4. Agent

Agent is the only open source feature rich, powerful and lightweight control panel that provides a responsive web interface for managing small servers and is best suited for dedicated and VPS hosting.

It has many built-in ready-made plugins for configuring and managing server software and services such as Apache, Nginx, MySQL, FTP, Firewall, File System, Cron, Munin, Samba, Squid, as well as many other programs such as a file manager, editor code for developers and terminal access.

5. Kloxo

Kloxo is one of the advanced and free web based control panels for Red Hat based distributions that includes ftp, spam filter, PHP, Perl, CGI and more.

Features such as messaging, backup/restore, and ticketing modules are built into Kloxo. It helps end users to manage/run the combination of Apache with BIND and switch the interface between these programs without data loss.

6. OpenPanel

OpenPanel is an open source web-based control panel for server administration and configuration that is licensed under GNU General Public and comes with an AJAX web and command line interface for managing users, domains, email, and other hosting-related services.

It can manage Apache, AWStats, Bind DNS, PureFTPD, Postfix, MySQL databases, IPTables firewall, Courier-IMAP email and more.

7. EHCP

EHCP (Easy Hosting Control Panel) is a free hosting server maintenance software. With EHCP, you can manage MySQL databases, email accounts, domain accounts, FTP accounts, and more.

It is the only control panel that has built-in support for Nginx and PHP-FPM with a complete Apache exception and provides good performance for low-end servers.

8. Virtualmin

Virtualmin is one of the most popular hosting control panels for Linux and Unix systems, which is available in both open source and premium versions.

Virtualmin is specifically designed to manage Apache virtual hosts, MySQL databases, DNS BIND domains, mailboxes with Sendmail or Postfix, and the entire server from one friendly interface.

9. Webmin

Webmin is a super functional and powerful web hosting control panel and system administration tool designed to easily manage Unix and Linux platforms.

Webmin is capable of managing various components of the web environment, from setting up a web server to serving FTP and a mail server.

Main features of Webmin:

Setting up and creating a virtual server on Apache.
Manage, install or remove a software package (RPM format).
You can set up a firewall for security.
Change DNS settings, IP address, and routing configuration.
Database management, tables and fields on MySQL.

10. DirectAdmin

DirectAdmin is an easy-to-use premium hosting control panel that allows server administrators to more efficiently manage servers and websites through a graphical interface from a web browser.

It is configurable to manage server tasks such as installing/updating software packages (such as Apache HTTP Server, PHP and MySQL), creating/modifying DNS records, starting/stopping services from the control panel, which simplifies server and hosting setup.

11. InterWorx

InterWorx is a secure server management system and web hosting control panel that offers a suite of domain, email and website management tools.

The InterWorx control panel is mainly divided into two modes of operation.

Nodeworx: Nodeworx is an admin mode that helps you manage servers.
SiteWorx: SiteWorx is a site owner mode that helps end users manage their hosting account and features.

12. Froxlor

Froxlor is a lightweight open source server control panel that can be used to manage personal VPS as well as dedicated or shared hosting platforms. It is an alternative to the very famous software called cPanel or Webmin which offer the same features to make server administration easier.

13. BlueOnyx

BlueOnyx is an open source server distribution based on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and CentOS. It provides a fully integrated web hosting control panel that includes web service, email, DNS, and file transfer services.

The latest version of BlueOnyx runs on RHEL 9 and clones such as AlmaLinux and RockyLinux. It includes reseller management, sFTP, SSH key management, PhpMyAdmin, MySQL, virtual web hosts and email statistics.

14. Vesta CP

Vesta CP is another open source web based control panel that comes with a lot of features to manage and configure your Linux systems with a simple and clean interface.

It comes with Softaculous, which offers automatic installation of web applications on the site using predefined scripts. It is able to install over 439 applications with one click to create all types of websites.

VestaCP is currently supported by RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian.

15. aaPanel

aaaPanel is a simple yet powerful control panel for managing web servers through a GUI (Graphical User Interface) web interface. It allows you to install the LNMP/LAMP development environment and software on Linux systems with one click. Its main goal is to help system administrators save time on deployment and focus on their own projects.

Conclusion

That's all, these are the best Open Source/Commercial Control Panels that we have collected on the web according to their popularity. From this list, you can choose the best one that suits your requirements.

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