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Fastpanel extended licence

Whilst I'm a big fan of Enhance, it has limitations, particularly multisite installations and (in my opinion) managing NGINX configs. I also use Fastpanel (replacing paid Runcloud) for some PHP scripts and multisite. I have posted about Fastpanel before here.

I recently noted that they have released a paid extended licence that I thought I would try out with a new site.
-The main extras include custom branding (which looks nice and clean). Custom Panel domain is already available with the free version.
-Integration with Prometheus in addition to their more limited monitoring.
-Priority support.

In my experience, Fastpanel offers a fantastic free package that is easy to configure, and I have noted very few bugs. The free package offers multi-level user management, and now, the addition of custom branding with the extended package makes it a little more attractive for agencies.

The support was responsive and responded to some late-night tickets within 24 hours (I probably could have managed independently, but I wanted to test the support).
Fastpanel doesn't offer OLS, but the NGINX php-fpm and NGINX Fast CGI stacks work well. Apache is also available, which I use for some PHP scripts, including Nextcloud (self-installed, not one-click).

I wanted to share this brief review/update of Fastpanel.
I'm not affiliated with Fastpanel or Enhance.

Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous 2025 :smile:

Comments

  • Oh and the licence is 4.20 Euro's per month per server.

    Thanked by 1emgh
  • Any lifetime deal

  • @DataBuster said:
    Any lifetime deal

    Not that I have seen

  • tiendungdevtiendungdev Member
    edited January 7

    I really love FastPanel, I've been using it for over 4 years and have had a great experience.

    I hope they will have a website restore feature when installing a new Panel (FastPanel to FastPanel) in the paid plan

  • @meditatingsurgeon said: Fastpanel doesn't offer OLS, but the NGINX php-fpm and NGINX Fast CGI stacks work well.

    Hi - Thanks for your post. Does FastPanel give out-of-the-box configurations for managing the NGINX FastCGI cache, or do you manually add code in the NGINX vhost?

    I am using CloudPanel and I have to add code manually to manage the FastCGI cache.

  • @qamarulhassan said: Hi - Thanks for your post. Does FastPanel give out-of-the-box configurations for managing the NGINX FastCGI cache, or do you manually add code in the NGINX vhost?

    Hi - yes, it supports FastCGI out of the box. Options of Apache, NGINX php-fpm, reverse proxy, static site etc. I have installed Nextcloud (Apache worked with minimal setup errors compared with NGINX). I've also installed WordPress multisite. Both subdirectory and subdomain configurations work.

    I installed Clientexec (had to reinstall the ioncube module - one-click)

    I had to add some additional config's to the NGINX configs for the Humminbird plugin but that was fine. It's all really straightforward.

    I like cloudpanel also but
    What I love the most is, you can add subdomains of a Cloudflare hosted domain i.e. sub.example.com as domains with Digital Ocean DNS. If you have the Digital Ocean API set up, it will install the site, SSL, and email domains in one go.

    Really so much for the free panel. The licence is bells and whistles but good for agencies as there is multilevel user management so you can let clients log in to a branded panel.
    I haven't used the Prometheus.

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  • @tiendungdev said: I really love FastPanel, I've been using it for over 4 years and have had a great experience.

    Yes, I have been running Fastpanel on a GreenCloud VPS for >2 years - Codecanyon PHP scripts and they have both been solid over that time.

  • Will FastPanel add support for OpenLiteSpeed?

  • @vikram said: Will FastPanel add support for OpenLiteSpeed?

    I really hope not - They are quite NGINX-centric and the whole stack works great as it is.

  • FastPanel vs CloudPanel?

  • @MikeIn said: FastPanel vs CloudPanel?

    • That's a tricky one. I think Fastpanel looks more polished but I like how Cloudpanel can integrate with Docker and has in-built reverse proxy for Docker Apps. In my experience Fastpanel is more stable.
  • last time i replace my 1gb ram/1 vcore/30gb vps fastpanel to aapanel, because it doesn't work as needed, too many timeouts and downtimes that I don't know why, now I only use cloudpanel, 1panel and aapanel for website production

  • @jackober said:
    last time i replace my 1gb ram/1 vcore/30gb vps fastpanel to aapanel, because it doesn't work as needed, too many timeouts and downtimes that I don't know why, now I only use cloudpanel, 1panel and aapanel for website production

    isnt 1panel and aapanel the same only different markets? One targets the western market and one the asian market?

  • TrKTrK Member

    @gbzret4d said: isnt 1panel and aapanel the same only different markets? One targets the western market and one the asian market?

    nope, 1panel is more like a docker manager like easy panel while aapanel is different although it also can handle docker container quite well, you might be referring to btpanel(chinese marketed version) and aapanel(international one).

  • @gbzret4d said:

    @jackober said:
    last time i replace my 1gb ram/1 vcore/30gb vps fastpanel to aapanel, because it doesn't work as needed, too many timeouts and downtimes that I don't know why, now I only use cloudpanel, 1panel and aapanel for website production

    isnt 1panel and aapanel the same only different markets? One targets the western market and one the asian market?

    i don't know about this, but the panels are different and adapt to needs, 1panel is more complex while aapanel is very easy to use

  • @TrK said:

    @gbzret4d said: isnt 1panel and aapanel the same only different markets? One targets the western market and one the asian market?

    nope, 1panel is more like a docker manager like easy panel while aapanel is different although it also can handle docker container quite well, you might be referring to btpanel(chinese marketed version) and aapanel(international one).

    Yeah, you are right. I mixed them up. What panel of the mentioned ones would you recommend for webhosting? Any big differents?

  • raviravi Member
    edited January 13

    @MikeIn said:
    FastPanel vs CloudPanel?

    I will go with CLoudPanel.
    I have used it and liked its minimalistic design and almost no bugs / errors. Simple to get started.

    Thanked by 1MikeIn
  • TrKTrK Member

    @gbzret4d said:

    @TrK said:

    @gbzret4d said: isnt 1panel and aapanel the same only different markets? One targets the western market and one the asian market?

    nope, 1panel is more like a docker manager like easy panel while aapanel is different although it also can handle docker container quite well, you might be referring to btpanel(chinese marketed version) and aapanel(international one).

    Yeah, you are right. I mixed them up. What panel of the mentioned ones would you recommend for webhosting? Any big differents?

    My simple recommendation is cloudpanel for personal use and currently with fastpanel and hestia if i want multi user functionality, also aapanel is good choice(no multi user if you don't pay) if you don't mind them getting your server details and god knows what else.

  • @TrK - I really like the look of 1Panel for managing containers - hadn't heard of it before - thank you :smiley:

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  • gbzret4dgbzret4d Member
    edited January 13

    @TrK said:

    @gbzret4d said:

    @TrK said:

    @gbzret4d said: isnt 1panel and aapanel the same only different markets? One targets the western market and one the asian market?

    nope, 1panel is more like a docker manager like easy panel while aapanel is different although it also can handle docker container quite well, you might be referring to btpanel(chinese marketed version) and aapanel(international one).

    Yeah, you are right. I mixed them up. What panel of the mentioned ones would you recommend for webhosting? Any big differents?

    My simple recommendation is cloudpanel for personal use and currently with fastpanel and hestia if i want multi user functionality, also aapanel is good choice(no multi user if you don't pay) if you don't mind them getting your server details and god knows what else.

    Thanks. I'm also an owner of an apiscp license. What do you think about apiscp?

  • TrKTrK Member

    @gbzret4d said:

    @TrK said:

    @gbzret4d said:

    @TrK said:

    @gbzret4d said: isnt 1panel and aapanel the same only different markets? One targets the western market and one the asian market?

    nope, 1panel is more like a docker manager like easy panel while aapanel is different although it also can handle docker container quite well, you might be referring to btpanel(chinese marketed version) and aapanel(international one).

    Yeah, you are right. I mixed them up. What panel of the mentioned ones would you recommend for webhosting? Any big differents?

    My simple recommendation is cloudpanel for personal use and currently with fastpanel and hestia if i want multi user functionality, also aapanel is good choice(no multi user if you don't pay) if you don't mind them getting your server details and god knows what else.

    Thanks. I'm also an owner of an apiscp license. What do you think about apiscp?

    I really haven't tried apiscp cause my nginx fan boy habits always comes in between, although from what I have read about apiscp it's a rock solid panel although limited to apache there are many things you won't find in cloudpanel or other panels. Although for multiuser setup for shared "web hosting" apiscp is more than enough as I won't find many nginx fanboys like me.

  • sreekanth850sreekanth850 Member
    edited January 14

    @TrK said: I really haven't tried apiscp cause my nginx fan boy habits always comes in between, although from what I have read about apiscp it's a rock solid panel although limited to apache there are many things you won't find in cloudpanel or other panels. Although for multiuser setup for shared "web hosting" apiscp is more than enough as I won't find many nginx fanboys like me.

    Not having NGINX is perfectly fine, but saying Apache can match Nginx's performance, especially without proper context, feels more like defending a choice rather than acknowledging the technical realities. I 'd seen many places where the creators defend for apache. TBH I felt it as childish. There is a reason why nginx exist

  • @meditatingsurgeon said:

    @MikeIn said: FastPanel vs CloudPanel?

    • That's a tricky one. I think Fastpanel looks more polished but I like how Cloudpanel can integrate with Docker and has in-built reverse proxy for Docker Apps. In my experience Fastpanel is more stable.

    You are the first person that I saw on this internet who says that FastPanel is better than CloudPanel. :o

    Thanked by 1TrK
  • @COLBYLICIOUS said:

    @meditatingsurgeon said:

    @MikeIn said: FastPanel vs CloudPanel?

    • That's a tricky one. I think Fastpanel looks more polished but I like how Cloudpanel can integrate with Docker and has in-built reverse proxy for Docker Apps. In my experience Fastpanel is more stable.

    You are the first person that I saw on this internet who says that FastPanel is better than CloudPanel. :o

    Hehe, it should be the otherway. CP is rock solid. Only thing that i don't like is multiple PHP running, you have to manually disable or stop the process.

  • TrKTrK Member

    @sreekanth850 said:

    @TrK said: I really haven't tried apiscp cause my nginx fan boy habits always comes in between, although from what I have read about apiscp it's a rock solid panel although limited to apache there are many things you won't find in cloudpanel or other panels. Although for multiuser setup for shared "web hosting" apiscp is more than enough as I won't find many nginx fanboys like me.

    Not having NGINX is perfectly fine, but saying Apache can match Nginx's performance, especially without proper context, feels more like defending a choice rather than acknowledging the technical realities. I 'd seen many places where the creators defend for apache. TBH I felt it as childish. There is a reason why nginx exist

    Technically it can match the performance of nginx if you know your way in optimization, nginx excels out of the box perfomance unlike apache where you have to optimise it for your use case to squeeze out performance evenly. And ofcourse with mod_pagespeed(there's nginx one as well) the rewrited webpages and static cache sure does wonders for some.

    If you are expecting multiple users to setup php apps on your server, going with apiscp instead of Fastpanel or such is far better choice imo. If you are looking for something personal it's hard to say, i mean for me CP is just right fulfills all my needs and I have no issues with it so far, just once where I messed up my MySQL instance and replaced it with mariadb it didn't work as expected.

  • @COLBYLICIOUS said: You are the first person that I saw on this internet who says that FastPanel is better than CloudPanel.

    Don't get me wrong - I really like Cloudpanel and I would have used it for one of my projects if only they allowed subdomain multisite like most other panels (except Enhance...). It's a solid panel but in my experience so is Fastpanel

  • @TrK said: Technically it can match the performance of nginx if you know your way in optimization, nginx excels out of the box perfomance unlike apache where you have to optimise it for your use case to squeeze out performance evenly. And ofcourse with mod_pagespeed(there's nginx one as well) the rewrited webpages and static cache sure does wonders for some.

    If you are expecting multiple users to setup php apps on your server, going with apiscp instead of Fastpanel or such is far better choice imo. If you are looking for something personal it's hard to say, i mean for me CP is just right fulfills all my needs and I have no issues with it so far, just once where I messed up my MySQL instance and replaced it with mariadb it didn't work as expected.

    It was for our product. And our platforms uses signalR extensively, and apache is less efficient compared to nginx for handling websockets and signalr. Apache uses separate threads for each signalr connection and it can eat lot of resources/memory for a high concurrent use cases. So, we never considered apache as an option for our deployments.

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