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Best free control panels for VPS
qamarulhassan
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Hi, I am using CloudPanel for one year and it's good. I need your suggestions for free stable alternatives for production sites. Also if there are any lifetime deals on paid control panels, please do share them here. Thanks
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Lifetime: apis by @nem
Free: fastpanel.direct, keyhelp
i like keyhelp also hestiacp
HestiaCP
+1 keyhelp
HestiaCP meets all my checkboxes.
will try keyhelp and see how it is.
lots of people are recommending it lately.
Thanks. Both are good.
1- FastPanel uses Apache as a webserver and NGINX as a reverse proxy. From the performance point of view, I think CloudPanel wins here as it only uses NGINX which serves both purposes.
2- Keyhelp uses Apache only. If it adds support for NGINX or Litespeed, I will choose it. No doubt it is excellent free control panel.
Thanks. HestiaCP also uses Apache as a webserver and NGINX as a reverse proxy. So CloudPanel wins here in the performance section as a lightweight and fast control panel.
you can configure hestiacp however you want.
1. only apache
2. apache with nginx reverse proxy
3. only nginx
https://hestiacp.com/install.html
Thanks. Keyhelp is a great panel. The only thing I am not using is due to Apache. For large traffic sites, NGINX and Litespeed win.
That's great. I will try it then. Thank You
have you tried cyberpanel? that could be an option as well.
regarding hestiacp,
https://forum.hestiacp.com/t/nginx-only-setup/15271
https://www.0664.net/1000.html
This is an open source NGINX admin panel, multi-language support, English, Chinese, Spanish，there are no obvious bugs in my use so far, it works pretty well.
No, because a lot of people are complaining about CyberPanel; especially security and performance related issues.
Thanks. How is their support?
You can follow their official github: https://github.com/0xJacky/nginx-ui/issues Overall it's ok, after all it's an open source product and I'm still comfortable with it, many panels sometimes do things they shouldn't.
Thanks
Just go with Enhance Control Panel and don't look back.
It's 5$/month for first ~30 websites.
https://github.com/1Panel-dev/1Panel?tab=readme-ov-file
This is another more powerful panel that is also free and open source.Its advantages are that it is very versatile, it will put every project into a container and it is free, the disadvantage it is not lightweight, if your host is too poor to run this panel will not be very good, of course the average host is fine.
Lifetime: ApisCP
Free: MyVestaCP
with last RCE exploit? Will say no again to CyberPanel,
get attacked and cant even update the cyberpanel
Some data get deleted + they installed cryptominer
Thanks. It looks cool. I will check it. $5 up to 33 websites is great.
Thanks. If virtualization on VPS is disabled by the host, will it still work?
aaPanel
Yes, 1Panel doesn't require much of a server environment, but projects created with it are running in containers, which is kind of a feature.
Your host should have a minimum of 1G of RAM to run it, that's the official requirement, and the server architecture requirements are x86_64, aarch64, armv7l, ppc64le, s390x;
It also has a companion Fortress Server version with stronger security policies, although not everyone needs it, if you control multiple servers then this is a great option, which is also free.
URL:https://github.com/jumpserver/jumpserver/
This panel is a castrated version of the full body of the Chinese version of the BT panel, and many of its plug-ins are charged separately, such as those for the security category and the monitoring category.
still better than other free panels i have tried. only using aapanel now.
Everything is so easy to setup and is no brainer.
virtualmin is also great
Hi,
Maybe this helps: https://www.enginyring.com/en/blog/best-free-web-control-panels-for-vps-in-2024