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Which OS and Control Panel for Wordpress on VPS
I am running Wordpress site on a shared hosting and used to with cPanel. Though I am not a technical person, I want to learn to run a Wordpress site on unmanaged vps. Since unmanaged vps is provided free by few providers like Amazon, Google, Oracle, which OS is best to select from - Ubuntu, Centos or Debian to run Wordpress site? And once one of the three OS is selected, which free control panel is best to run for a cpanel user like me without much knowledge of codes and commands? Do these OS and panels work with Litespeed and/or Nginx?
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Hello,
For web hosting all three OS are good, you just have to install and try each one to see which one you like.
But, If the VPS don't have lot of memory go with Debian.
Take a look at
CloudPanel
https://www.cloudpanel.io/
Hello,
We wrote in Mivocloud Blog about "What control panels are there for VPS and dedicated server?"
As a free alternative, you can try VestaCP, Brainy, CentOS Web Panel, Agents, or ISP Config.
Among the paid ones: ISPmanager, cPanel, DirectAdmin, Parallels Plesk Panel
More information about Pros and Cons is here > https://www.mivocloud.com/blog/what-control-panels-are-there-for-vps-and-dedicated-server
About OS, I think it better to choose CentOS 7, at the moment it is very stable.
The ‘free’ VPs’s are pretty low spec, running a control panel will use up resources on your server, reducing resources to run your website.
If your use to cPanel, your best way forward would be using Directadmin with WAF rules and don’t forget to backup your website away from the VPS in case you get hacked.
It might also be worth checking if you need emails as well.
Some of the free VPS’s will allow you to run applications like Wordpress directly from the VPS without a control panel, but I am not sure what security they offer.
if you love CLI, then you can try centminmod or cyberpanel for GUI, for VPS with 1gb ram
thanks, never knew about this before
You should decide on a panel before you choose an OS because most panels only work on a limited number of OS.
ISPConfig is a good and secure free hosting panel. Debian or Ubuntu is the best OS choice for ISPConfig.
Be aware that CentOS 8 is end-of-life on December 31, 2021. And CentOS Stream is a beta product. So check if the panels you get recommended for this OS have planned to change to AlmaLinux or another stable OS.
Usually im using CentOS then install aaPanel or Cyberpanel but im now using aaPanel
Right now the CentOS with Plesk as Plesk has module to manage Wordpress updates/optimise, if you do have more just one website.
If it’s just one website any free control panels will do the job.
It's best to only run wordpress especially if you don't know what you're doing. Choose centminmod for bleeding edge/speed and something like easyengine/webinoly for the simplicity. You could have a wordpress site up and running just by running a script.
CyberPanel + OpenLiteSpeed or LiteSpeed Free
Centos web panel
Or
Cyberpanel
@kidrock use the bitnami image https://bitnami.com/stack/wordpress/cloud if you are only interested in WP on a vps and skip the control panel all together. Works on AWS, AWS Lightsail, azure, google. Also there is a docker container version. Save yourself some headaches and skip the panel
You can try hestiacp or aapanel
Cloudpanel is great if you want a web interface
For terminal, go with webinoly or wordops. Either is a great option to learn the basics.
For a beginner site, 512 MB ram should be enough, do not plan on spending more than 1 us Dollar per month.
You can also give ClassicPress a try. Good luck.
Above are links to my blog.
+1 but I maybe biased
Some guides I wrote on my Centmin Mod blog (which runs Centmin Mod 123.09beta01 on US$5/month Upcloud KVM VPS).