The Best Open Source cPanel AlternativesTop Server Management Tools & Web Servers 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

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    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.

    70 Webmin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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    Comments about Webmin as an Alternative to cPanel
    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.

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    • Most users think Webmin is a great cPanel alternative.

    • Webmin is the most popular Web-based, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to cPanel.

    • Webmin is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to cPanel.

    • 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

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    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!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    Comments about Vesta Control Panel as an Alternative to cPanel
    homosapien
    Positive
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    The project is discontinued.

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    Light, fast and easy to use.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Vesta Control Panel is a great cPanel alternative.

    • Vesta Control Panel is Free and Open SourcecPanel is Paid and Proprietary
  4. Ajenti icon

    Ajenti

     130 likes
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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    ISPConfig

     43 likes
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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. Cockpit Project icon

    Cockpit Project

     39 likes
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    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.

    32 Cockpit Project alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
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  7. HestiaCP icon

    HestiaCP

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    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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    Comments about HestiaCP as an Alternative to cPanel
    dgaroorkee
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    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

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    • HestiaCP is Free and Open SourcecPanel is Paid and Proprietary
    • HestiaCP is LightweightcPanel is not according to our users
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    StartOS

     24 likes
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    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.

    16 StartOS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. aaPanel icon

    aaPanel

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    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
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    OpenResty Manager

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    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...

    47 OpenResty Manager alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • OpenResty Manager is the most popular SaaS alternative to cPanel.

    • OpenResty Manager is Free and Open SourcecPanel is Paid and Proprietary
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    Sentora

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    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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    Comments about Sentora as an Alternative to cPanel
    Guest
    Positive
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    Easy completely automated install process including all dependencies... module capabilities

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Sentora is a great cPanel alternative.

    • Sentora is Free and Open SourcecPanel is Paid and Proprietary
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    Virtualmin

     34 likes
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    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 (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  14. Froxlor icon

    Froxlor

     26 likes
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    Lightweight server management software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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