The Best Open Source cPanel AlternativesTop Server Management Tools & Web Hosting Services like cPanel

The best open source alternative to cPanel is Webmin. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to cPanel and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to cPanel are Vesta Control Panel, Ajenti, ISPConfig and Cockpit Project.

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  1. Webmin icon

    Webmin

     250 likes

    Web-based admin interface for Unix-like and Windows systems provides modules for user, service, and network configuration, open source application management, security, backups, monitoring, automation, remote access, and firewall controls.

    73 Webmin alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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    Webmin vs cPanel Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    idlesHand
    6

    Very powerful and flexible control panel for servers and vps. If you need to provide access to say web-hosting modules to a non-linux user than you can do so with granular access permissions so they can only break apache and not the ssh. ;-)

    Top Negative Comment
    Panjabi Khaled
    2

    closer alternative is cloudmin or virtualmin - and these two are now free.

    Nasch Dax
    Positive
    0

    I would not ever touch webmin again because once it is installed and you start really using it you will constantly miss functions. just google Webmin+docker and you'll see how it is not possible to integrate while it would have been no problem in virtualmin. Once webmin is installed you can NOT install virtualmin. but if you install virtualmin you have that and everything webmin. so unless you intend to trash the server later anyways you should absolute not ever use webmin.

    3 of 6 comments
    • Webmin is Freemium and Open SourcecPanel is Paid and Proprietary
    • Webmin is Privacy focusedcPanel is not according to our users
  2. Vesta Control Panel icon

    Vesta Control Panel

     62 likes

    Simple Hosting Control Panel

    Vesta is an open source Hosting Control Panel that is free to use under GPLv3. It provides an easy to use control panel that allows the management of websites, DNS, mail, backups, and more!.

    47 Vesta Control Panel alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    Vesta Control Panel vs cPanel Comments
    homosapien
    Positive
    0

    The project is discontinued.

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Light, fast and easy to use.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Vesta Control Panel is Free and Open SourcecPanel is Paid and Proprietary
  4. Ajenti icon

    Ajenti

     130 likes

    Ajenti is a Linux & BSD modular server admin panel. Ajenti 2 provides a new interface and a better architecture, developed with Python3 and AngularJS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    Login
     
  5. ISPConfig icon

    ISPConfig

     43 likes

    ISPConfig 3 is an open source hosting control panel for Linux. ISPconfig 3 is capable of managing multiple servers from one control panel. ISPConfig is licensed under BSD license.

    41 ISPConfig alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. Cockpit Project icon

    Cockpit Project

     39 likes

    Makes it easy to administer Linux servers via a web browser. It allows you to easily perform simple tasks like storage administration, inspecting journals, starting & stopping services, monitoring & administering several servers at once.

    34 Cockpit Project alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  7. StartOS icon

    StartOS

     27 likes

    StartOS is a browser-based, graphical operating system for a personal server that facilitates the discovery, installation, configuration, dependency management, and health monitoring of self-hosted software services.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  9. HestiaCP icon

    HestiaCP

     27 likes

    Hestia Control Panel is an open source web server control panel with an easy-to-use interface as a lightweight alternative to cPanel, Plesk, etc. Hestia It's also the continuation of the development of Vesta Control Panel.

    32 HestiaCP alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    HestiaCP vs cPanel Comments
    dgaroorkee
    Positive
    0

    I have used mostly every open source panel but it's most reliable. It has everything with clean UI with cool dark mode. Thanks HestiaCP

    • HestiaCP is Free and Open SourcecPanel is Paid and Proprietary
    • HestiaCP is LightweightcPanel is not according to our users
  10. aaPanel icon

    aaPanel

     17 likes

    aaPanel provides the one-click function such as one-click install LNMP/LAMP developing environment and software. Our main goal is helping users to save the time of deploying, thus users just focus on their own project that is fine.

    17 aaPanel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    aaPanel screenshot 1
     
  11. OpenResty Manager icon

    OpenResty Manager

     5 likes

    The most simple, powerful and beautiful host management panel, an open source alternative to OpenResty Edge, allows you to easily secure reverse proxy websites running at home or on the Internet, including access control, denial of service attack protection, automatic...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Main
     
  12. Sentora icon

    Sentora

     32 likes

    Sentora is an open-source web hosting control panel built specifically to work on a variety of Linux distributions. Sentora is licensed under the GPL and is a separately maintained fork of the original ZPanel project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Sentora vs cPanel Comments
    Guest
    Positive
    -1

    Easy completely automated install process including all dependencies... module capabilities

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Sentora is Free and Open SourcecPanel is Paid and Proprietary
  13. Virtualmin icon

    Virtualmin

     34 likes

    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...

    43 Virtualmin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    Virtualmin screenshot 1
     
  14. CyberPanel icon

    CyberPanel

     13 likes

    CyberPanel is web hosting control panel which is based on OpenLiteSpeed. Comes with builtin support for DNS, FTP, email, file manager and automatic SSL.

    74 CyberPanel alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • cPanel
    • CentOS Web Panel
    • Parallels Plesk Panel
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    CyberPanel vs cPanel Comments
    mandrael
    Positive
    -1

    Neat interface, comes free and with Openlitespeed, but also with Enterprise plans, which are affordable. Perfect for hosting WordPress websites. Installation in new server is very easy. Also security options, firewall etc.

    • CyberPanel is Freemium and Open SourcecPanel is Paid and Proprietary
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