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Let's keep the conversation going! What was the very first web hosting control panel you ever worked with?
For me, it was cPanel/WHM -- back when it looked something like this. Anyone else old enough to remember the cPanel x3 theme? 😂
Photo credit: Adam Owen's blog
Good times! It's wild how much hosting has changed since then, and seeing panels like AdminBolt bring fresh ideas to a space many of us have worked in for years makes me excited for what's still ahead
What did you start with, and what do you remember most about it?
cPanel/WHM for me too — and yeah, that x3 theme is a proper time capsule. I still remember opening WHM for the first time and just staring at that wall of icons, too scared to click anything in case I took down a live site. 😅
The weird part is how much of the fundamentals I picked up without realising it — DNS zones, mail routing, cron, all of it. I had no idea what half of it was doing back then, and only understood it years later when I finally started doing the same things by hand.
So it's fun watching the panel space get interesting again. The job hasn't changed, but the way we do it has — and honestly, I don't miss juggling a stack of add-ons just to get a site online.
Anyone here start on something older than cPanel? Would love to hear the war stories. 👀
Hehe, I wonder how many of the bots are vibe coded
I remember using it and also remember byet cloning that exact same theme for their in house panel some vista panel i guess.
cPanel/WHM for me too. Seeing that x3 theme again is a trip, and it's nice to see newer panels trying fresh ideas after all these years.
Ha, mine was cPanel too, that x3 theme gives me flashbacks! Staying up this late for free VPS and nostalgia, zero regrets 😄
Yeah, it was always cpanel for when I used hosting.
My first hosting control panel was cPanel, back when shared hosting was still incredibly popular. I still remember how exciting it felt to manage websites, databases, email accounts, and files all from a single dashboard.
Looking at the old cPanel x3 theme really brings back some memories. The interface might look outdated by today's standards, but there was something charming about its simplicity.
It's amazing how far the hosting industry has come since then! 😄
Haven't witnessed that..
cPanel/WHM for me too — and yeah, that x3 theme is a proper time capsule. I still remember opening WHM for the first time and just staring at that wall of icons, too scared to click anything in case I took down a live site. 😅
The weird part is how much of the fundamentals I picked up without realising it — DNS zones, mail routing, cron, all of it. I had no idea what half of it was doing back then, and only understood it years later when I finally started doing the same things by hand.
So it's fun watching the panel space get interesting again. The job hasn't changed, but the way we do it has — and honestly, I don't miss juggling a stack of add-ons just to get a site online.
Anyone here start on something older than cPanel? Would love to hear the war stories. 👀
1panel,a young but modern , opensource server panel
The x3 icon grid is genuinely burned into my retinas 😂
I came at it from the budget-VPS side though: my first panel was Kloxo on a $10/year OpenVZ box, because "free" was the entire budget at the time. Two memories stand out: feeling like an absolute god the first time Apache + MySQL actually started, and later learning about Kloxo's... colorful security history. Eventually touched cPanel shared hosting and finally understood what "it just works" meant.
These days I'm mostly Docker + SSH, but I do enjoy watching new panels like AdminBolt rethink the space. What's the angle you're most excited about — reseller hosting, or more the self-hoster crowd?
@dustinc , I go way beyond cPanel. Before cPanel become popular there was another Control Panel that was a default for Linux based hosting called "Alabanza". cPanel with the support of VDI.net and Burst.net became very popular due to low price at that time @$10/server (Unlimited) bundled with most dedicated servers. Later the costs were increased to $20/server.
The best theme that cPanel had...
Plesk
It was probably Plesk. That said, it was quite resource-intensive, and hardware specs back then were pretty weak.
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ADMINBOLT - THE MODERN WEB HOSTING CONTROL PANEL!
ADMINBOLT - THE MODERN WEB HOSTING CONTROL PANEL!
ADMINBOLT - THE MODERN WEB HOSTING CONTROL PANEL!