The Hosting Control Panel provides an elegant solution for hosting multiple competing websites on shared, VPS (Virtual Private Server) and Dedicated servers.
Hosting Control Panel is an application that provides services to manage web-based software to run the server management process, without the need to set up server administration.
The most popular and powerful control panels today are cPanel and Plesk. Both of these control panels are paid applications that are provided monthly for a hosting provider to install on its server.
But fortunately, there are several alternative control panels that contain open source available for download for free with almost the same features as the paid ones, which are as follows:
1. Cpanel / WHM
Cpanel is a Unix / Linux based hosting control panel. The graphical interface helps you to manage your website and hosting account very easily and quickly.
Cpanel provides you with full access to the various elements of setting up a website and administering its hosting through a web browser such as creating a database, creating email accounts, autoresponders, and managing website files.
2. Plesk
Plesk is a hosting control panel similar to cPanel. Plesk connects you to manage your hosting account through a web-based interface. You can install this control panel on a VPS or dedicated server.
Plesk also connects you to control the cost of virtual hosts in a single machine. The control panel allows you to set many tasks that in turn affect biological resources and resources.
It also increases profitability, efficiency and customer satisfaction. The features provided by Plesk are as follows:
a. Create an FTP account.
b.Manage and create email accounts and databases such as MySQL and PsotgreSQL.
c. Add domains and subdomains.
d. Restore and back up data.
e. Manage DNS and other resources.
3. ISPConfig
ISPConfig is an open source multi language control panel that allows you to manage multiple servers under one control panel. ISPConfig operates under a BSD license.
This open source control Panel is also capable of managing FTP, SQL, BIND DNS, databases, and virtual servers. The features provided by ISPConfig are as follows:
a. Can manage more than one server from one control panel.
b. Web interface used for administrator, reseller and client login.
c. It supports web servers such as Apache and Nginx.
d. Mirroring and cluster configuration.
e. Manage email and FTP accounts.
f. And many more
4. Kloxo
Click on one of the available website control panels and it is available for free for Redhat and CentOS distros. It has features like FTP, spam filter, PHP, Perl, CGI, and more.
Features such as messaging, Backup restore and Ticketing modules are also available in the control panel. It helps users to manage / run Apache combination with BIND, and restart between these programs without losing your data.
5. Zpanel
Zpanel is a hosting control panel that is available for free and is very easy to use on enterprise-class webhosting control panels such as Linux, UNIX, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.
Zpanel is written in pure PHP language and is well compatible on Apache, PHP and MySQL. It comes with various essential core features to enhance your web hosting services.
Those core features include Apache Web Server, hMailServer, FileZilla Server, MySQL, PHP, Webalizer, RoundCube, phpMyAdmin, phpSysInfo, FTP imprisonment and many more.
6. Webmin
Webmin is a powerful and highly functional webhosting control panel. Software designed for Unix and Linux platforms in a simple way. Webmin is quite capable to manage various components
web-based networking from webserver setup to FTP and Email Server maintenance.
Features available on Webmin, are as follows:
a.Configure and create a virtual server on Apache.
b. Run, Install or create software packages (RPM format).
c. For security, you can set the firewall feature.
d. Change DNS settings, IP address, routing configuration.
e. Manage databases, tables and MySQL fields.
7. EHCP
EHCP (easy Hosting Control Panel) is a free Control panel software for managing web-based hosting servers. By using EHCP you can manage MySQL databases, email accounts, domain accounts, FTP accounts and more.
It is the only control panel that has built-in support for Nginx and PHP-FPM that does not use Apache and provides good performance for low-end servers.
8. DTC
Domain Technologie Control (DTC) is the ultimate hosting control panel for the admin and accounting of GPL hosting services. With the help of a GUI-based web interface, DTC can manage tasks such as creating emails, FTP accounts, subdomains, databases, and more.
It creates a MySQL database that contains all the hosting information.
9. Interworx
Interworx is a Linux server management system and webhosting control panel. Interworx has several tools that help the administrator to manage his own server and the end user can select or view the search results of their website.
This control Panel is basically divided into two modes of operation, namely:
a. Nodeworx
Yes administrator mode that helps manage servers.
b. SiteWorx
Website owners Ya see that helps end users to manage their hosting account and the features it has.
10. Ajenti
Ajenti is the only open source based control panel that is feature rich, powerful and lightweight. Its control Panel provides a responsive web interface for managing small server settings and is also best suited for Dedicated and VPS hosting.
Built-in plugins to configure and manage software servers and services such as Apache, Nginx, MySQL, FTP, Firewall, File system, Cron, Munin, Samba, Squid and many more programs such as File Manager, code Editor for developers as well as Terminal access.