A web hosting control panel is a graphical user interface (or, in some cases, a web-based interface), that is accessible online and provides tools for managing a website, the web hosting account, and sometimes the server.
In most cases, you will access your control panel via a web browser, though this may vary on occasion.
And while cPanel/WHM is arguably the most popular and easy-to-use control panel for managing your website, it’s not perfect at all. From time to time massive security flaws are found in cPanel’s hosting, and also it can cost quite a lot of money per month. So without further ado, let’s take a look at some cPanel alternatives that can help you manage your website:
1. ISPConfig
The ISPConfig is dedicated to Linux. It is an open source platform written in PHP. Users can easily manage emails, websites and DNS records as administrator. It allows management of multiple servers from one control panel.
Other features include complete mail server management with antivirus and spam filters, multi-lingual functionality, DNS server management, community support, and much more.
Single and Multi-Server
- Manage one or more servers from one control panel.
- Single server, Multiserver and Mirrored Clusters.
- No matter if physical server or virtual machine, ISPConfig just works.
Supports Many Linux Distributions
- Debian 5 – 10 and Testing (recommended)
- Ubuntu 8.10 – 18.04 (recommended)
- CentOS 5.2 – 7
- Fedora 10 and 12 – 15
- OpenSuSE 11.1 – 12.3
Translated In More Than 20 Languages
- English
- German
- French
- Spanish
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Czech
- Many more
Four Access Levels
- Administrator
- Reseller
- Client
- Email Login
Support For Many Daemons
- HTTP: Apache2 and nginx
- SMTP: Postfix
- POP3/IMAP: Courier and Dovecot
- FTP: PureFTPD
- DNS: Bind, PowerDNS, and MyDNS
- Database: MySQL
Managed Services
- Websites
- Email accounts
- FTP users
- MySQL databases
- Cron jobs
- Shell users
- DNS
- IPv4 support
- IPv6 support
2. CentOS Web Panel
CentOS Web Panel – a Free Web Hosting control panel designed for quick and easy management of (Dedicated & VPS) servers minus the chore and effort to use ssh console for every time you want to do something, offers a huge number of options and features for server management in its control panel package.
WEB SERVER FEATURES
- Apache from source
- Varnish Cache Server
- suPHP & suExec
- Mod Security & OWASP rules
- Nginx reverse Proxy
- Rebuild Apache vHosts
- Status & Configuration
PHP FEATURES
- PHP version switcher
- php.ini per user account
- php.ini Editor, FFMPEG
- PHP Addons (one click)
- PHP ReCompiler (one click)
- CloudLinux + PHP Selector
- CWP PHP Selector (FREE)
USER MANAGEMENT
- Add, Edit, Remove Users
- User Monitoring
- Shell access management
- CWP Limits (Process num, OpenFiles, Quota, Inodes)
- CloudLinux Limits per user
- User FTP & File Manager
DNS MANAGEMENT
- FreeDNS (DNS server)
- Add, Edit, List and Remove DNS zones
- Edit nameserver IPs
- DNS zone template editor
- Easy DNS Zone Manage
- DNS Zone List Resolver
- Postfix & Dovecot
- MailBoxes, Alias-Forwarder
- Roundcube webmail
- Postfix Mail queue
- AutoResponders,SPF-DKIM
- AntiSpam & AntiVirus
- OneClick Rebuild Postfix
SECURITY
- CSF Firewall, CageFS
- SSL Certificates
- Mod Security + OWASP rules
- suPHP & suExec
- File System Lock Mod
- Shell Access Manager
- Security Limits per User
SYSTEM
- Auto-Fix (configuration)
- ChkConfig Manager
- Services Status
- Hardware & Software info
- Disk Details
- Network Configuration
- Backup Manager
MYSQL
- MySQL Database Managment
- Local or remote access user
- Live Monitor MySQL process
- MySQL server configuration
- PhpMyAdmin
- Create, Remove database
- PostgreSQL, phpPgAdmin
3. Virtualmin
Virtualmin is a powerful and flexible web hosting control panel for Linux and BSD systems. Available in an Open Source community-supported version, and a more feature-filled version with premium support, Virtualmin is the cost-effective and comprehensive solution to virtual web hosting management. And, Virtualmin is the most popular and most comprehensive Open Source control panel with over 100,000 installations worldwide.
Virtualmin Features
Virtualmin is a uniquely powerful and flexible web server administration tool. It is unmatched in features and flexibility. Based on Webmin, it offers a wide array of productivity-enhancing tools for hosting providers, web developers, web designers, and end users.
Domain Accounts
Virtualmin provides powerful and flexible domain accounts, called virtual servers, and sub-servers, allowing users to manage their own websites. This allows delegation of management of websites to users on your server; a website owner can safely be delegated privileges for managing mail, DNS, databases, web applications, and more.
Virtualmin helps you and your customers manage mailboxes, forwarders, autoresponders, alias, spam and antivirus scanning, and provides several powerful web-based mail clients including Usermin with full Virtualmin integration, RoundCube, and Squirrelmail.
User and Reseller Accounts and ACLs
Virtualmin provides powerful tools to allow delegation of many common administrative tasks to your customers and end users, empowering them and freeing you and your IT staff from the tedious chores of managing websites, databases, domains, and users. Virtualmin GPL provides domain owner accounts, which can create new websites, install applications, manage mail accounts and databases, view logs, and edit files. Virtualmin Professional adds reseller accounts, allowing you to delegate creation of domain owner accounts. Access Control List features provide fine-grained access control, and are configurable using Account Plans and Server Templates.
Security
A primary concern for any web hosting server administrator, Virtualmin provides a number of tools to help you keep your systems and your data safe. All of our products are provided via system-standard package repositories (yum/dnf on CentOS/RHEL or apt on Debian/Ubuntu), so updating them is easy and can be automated. Updating both system packages and Install Scripts web applications can be performed easily from within the UI. Virtualmin also allows use of Webmin’s two factor authentication, certificate logins, brute force protection, and many other security features.
Alerts, Graphs, and Logs
Virtualmin provides easy viewing and searching of system and web server logs, advanced monitoring and email/text alerts for services and network status, system software and web apps update notifications, and current usage details. Virtualmin Professional adds historic system graphs for memory, CPU, processes, and much more.
Backups And Cloud Integration
Virtualmin makes it easy to keep good backups of your websites, databases, mailboxes, and more, and makes it easy to migrate to a new Virtualmin server. Cloud storage support for Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3, and Rackspace Cloud means that whatever cloud provider you prefer, you’ll be able to integrate Virtualmin into your infrastructure quickly and easily. Pre-installed Virtualmin images are available for several cloud server providers, as well, making it easy to host a Virtualmin system on cloud-based servers.
Databases
Virtualmin provides comprehensive tools for managing databases, and delegation of management to account holders. Adding, removing, exporting and importing database dumps, and more, can all be accomplished from within the UI. In addition, PHPMyAdmin and PHPPgAdmin Install Scripts are provided for both Virtualmin GPL and Virtualmin Professional, providing familiar tools for working with databases.
Install Scripts
Virtualmin GPL provides easy to install web applications for database management, web mail, WHMCS, and more. Virtualmin Professional provides over 100 web applications for nearly every need: CMS, CRM, forums, commerce, issue tracking, community, webmail, database management, mailing list management, and much more. Your domain account owners can manage their own web applications, and Virtualmin makes it easy to keep them up to date.
4. VestaCP
VestaCP is simple and clever hosting control panel. This makes it an ideal platform for resellers who want an easy and uncluttered interface.
Features
DNS – Named
WEB – NGINX + Apache NGINX + php-fpm Apache
MONITORING TOOLS – Monit Webalizer AWStats RRDtool
MAIL – SpamAssasinantispam solution ClamAVantivirus engineDovecotIMAP/POP3 server Exim + RoundCubemail server
DATABASE – MySQL + phpMyAdmin PostgreSQL + phpPgAdmin
FTP – VsFTPD ProFTPD
BACKUP – CRON
