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BlueOnyx, has anyone tried it?
Can you share your experiences?
I always recommend HestiaCP to my VPS clients. I've tried CyberPanel and other free options, but the experience hasn't been good. Any other recommendations?
HestiaCP works very well, but I haven't found a user-friendly theme like cPanel or DirectAdmin.
Thanks
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Ispconfig.
cloudpanel
cloudpanel
Virtualmin is my goto for the last 10+ years.
First time hearing it. I tried to check their website, but it seems like a PHP panel only at first glance. There aren't many useful details on their site other than some marketing blabber.
My go to panel is always either of cloudpanel, aapanel, and dokploy.
I have mixed experience with hestiacp, I think it's good for one site alone, but when I offered it to my clients for free hosting, I feel the bottleneck easily when there's high traffic, the site will start to slow down. Well, I know the default php-fpm template needs to be tweaked, the issue is that I need to tell them every time to use this specific php-fpm template them or I usually do myself.
There's not really a panel alternative that has somewhat cloudlinux capability, never try to find out whether we can integrate cloudlinux to Hestiacp.
For now, I still use hestiacp to host sites for multiple clients. Providing them with redis per user via unix socket, some QoL interface, I guess, like real-time usage stats.
virtualmin is quite close to cpanel/da/whm. I perfer it.
Now that brings up some memories, used to have a rack of those little blue pizza boxes. In its day about 25 years ago it was great, we ran our customers on them for a long time.
Today I use Keyhelp for my own use, playing, and such.
Good Luck,
Anthony
If you want something stable and that handles the basics perfectly then ISPConfig. If you're looking for something a bit more modern then FastPanel.
Centminmod
Tried to install blueonyx several month ago, but unfortunately no luck.
the things that interested for me : that is control panel for almalinux, but there seem we have to buy some module if needed.
used FastPanel for 1 year, very nice and simple. hopefully they bring almalinux 9 compatibility soon
I can only agree with @kidos. I’ve been using FASTPANEL for about three years on more than 90 servers, and I’m very satisfied with it. It’s very simple and intuitive, the installation is extremely quick, and maintenance is easy thanks to automatic updates. A user-friendly theme is only available with the Extended license for €4.20 per month or the Lifetime license for €99. However, I only use the Standard license, and it’s completely sufficient.
One note of caution: support tickets for FASTPANEL have cost money for some time now — but you won’t really need them, as everything works smoothly.
It just supports PHP yes?
Blue Onyx is a spin of from popular Cobalt Networks server's from the late 1990s. Sun Microsystem had acquired Cobalt Networks in the early 2000's and eventually released as open source. Its been around for a very long time. Not sure why this never became popular. Did try back early 2000s but will give another spin at it since have some idlers.
Yes, currently it supports only PHP. However, the support team told me some time ago that they are planning to add features like Node.js apps and more in the future.
Full disclosure: I am the lead developer and maintainer of BlueOnyx.
I came across this discussion rather late, but some of the comments here were fair - particularly that our previous website did a poor job of showing what BlueOnyx currently is.
BlueOnyx is still actively developed. The maintained releases now run on AlmaLinux 8, 9 and 10, with installation ISOs, VMware/VirtualBox appliances and Incus images. Installed systems receive signed updates through our YUM/DNF mirrors.
The core platform remains free and open source. It includes web, mail, DNS, database, user, Vsite and reseller management. Commercial modules are optional rather than required to operate the base system.
We have also added API v2 automation, WHMCS and FOSSBilling integrations, current migration and recovery tooling, integrated 2FA, CalDAV/CardDAV integration and a rebuilt administrative interface. We are also developing an experimental AI assistant that can work with local language models or external LLM APIs to assist with administrative tasks. Its tool access is deliberately constrained: diagnostics are separated from actions, privileged operations require confirmation and are restricted to approved wrapper commands, and weaker models receive a reduced, read-only tool set.
For the person who had trouble installing it: If you still remember which image, virtualization platform or error you encountered, I would genuinely like to know. Our current release pipeline performs automated media checks and complete VM installation tests, but actionable failure reports are always useful.
We recently consolidated the current provider and deployment information here: https://www.blueonyx.it/blueonyx-for-providers.html
BlueOnyx is not intended to be a cPanel clone, and it will not suit every workflow. But it is very much alive, and frank technical feedback is welcome.
With best regards,
Michael Stauber
BlueOnyx Lead Developer