Free Web Hosting Control Panel Software
Control Panels to Use on Your Web Servers
Free Web Hosting Control Panels
The free and/or open source web hosting control panels listed here allow you to manage your web server from an easy-to-use web interface. That is, once set up, you can use your web browser to access your web server to do things like manage your email accounts, set up and delete databases, configure the web server, install various other software on your server, support your users through a support ticket system, bill your users, back up the server, set up new domains, etc. They usually include support for one or more web servers, one or more database servers, an FTP server, a mail server, DNS management, web statistics, spam filtering, and so on.
For those who are wondering why you may want this, the control panel software may be useful if you are setting up a web server on a bare-bones dedicated server or even a virtual private server (VPS). Of course the use of such software does not obviate the need to know something about running a web server, but it automates some of the many tasks you will need to do and gives it a pretty user interface (UI).
Note: if you are a new webmaster looking for information about starting your own website, this is not the page for you. Please read the The Beginner's A-Z Guide to Starting/Creating Your Own Website instead. In addition, commercial web hosts already come with a built-in control panel for you to manage your web hosting account, so there's no need for you to download one. All you need is to get your own domain name, find a web host, and get a web editor. As I said, read more about it in the getting started guide.
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Free Web Hosting Control Panel Software
- Webmin and Usermin
If you are the system administrator of a web server running on a Unix-type system like Linux, FreeBSD or OpenBSD, Webmin lets you manage that server from your web browser. You can do things like set up the Apache web server, edit the Unix configuration files (to add new user accounts to the system, etc), manage the DNS, set up SSL encryption, set up the daemons/services to run on your server, set up disk quotas, back up the system, and so on. Usermin is its counterpart for your end-users, that is, the users of the different web accounts on your server. It lets you change passwords, set up mail filters, edit the Apache .htaccess files, log in to MySQL and manage your database tables and records, log into the server through SSH, and so on.
- SysCP: The Open Source System Control Panel
This is an open source control panel for Linux and FreeBSD systems using the Apache and Lighttpd web servers. It supports DNS software like Bind9 and PowerDNS, FTP servers like ProFTP and PureFTP, web statistic/log analyzers software like Awstats and Webalizer, mail servers like Dovecot and Courier, has FastCGI support, SSL, DKIM and individual DNS/SPF records (for email), has a traffic, billing and ticket system, and so on.
- GPLHost
GPLHost is a web control panel aimed at commercial web hosting. It provides admin and accounting facilities that let you set permissions for users of the domains they own to do various tasks themselves, like creating subdomains, email, mailing lists, SSH, FTP, databases, etc. Since it is designed to be use by commercial web hosts, it also has billing and a support ticket system integrated. Other features include the ability to manage and monitor virtual private servers (VPS), antivirus and spam filtering of email, mailing lists, real-time bandwidth monitoring on a per-user basis, package installer (to install applications like blogging software, forums, etc), chrooted CGI-BIN (for security), an installer that will only modify the server configuration as needed, etc. The information managed by GPLHost is stored in a MySQL database. This software is open source under the GNU GPL.
- ISPConfig
This open source hosting control panel manages your web server with support for virtual hosts (domain and IP based), FTP (along with web FTP), Bind, MySQL databases, web statistics, email, autoresponders, spam filters, traffic limits, disk quotas, SSL, a firewall, backup, automatic network configuration for new IP addresses, etc. There are 4 types of logins, Administrator, Reseller, Client and Email-Users, thus allowing you to use this for a server that caters to clients/customers. (It can even send welcome emails to your customers.)
- GNUPanel
The GNUPanel is a web hosting control panel released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It runs on Linux systems. With this panel, you can perform tasks like creating public and private hosting accounts, accept payments, control bandwidth and disk space, use its integrated support ticket system, etc. Individual web hosting users can on their part create mail and FTP accounts, create/manage databases, make payments, manage their domains and subdomains, etc. It has 3 levels of users: administrator, reseller and user. The configuration information used by this control panel software is stored in a PostgreSQL database.
- ehcp: Easy Hosting Control Panel
The Easy Hosting Control Panel, or ehcp, is an open source (under the GNU General Public License) server management control panel for Linux. You can manage your domains, FTP, email, MySQL, etc with this program.
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