Suggest a free web hosting control panel

[Chronic]

I'm looking for a decent web hosting control panel, does anyone know one?

I'm hosting a few websites for some of my friends so paid panels are out of the question. It'd be amazing if it had a file manager with unzip capabilities, but it's not a must. So far I've been using i-MSCP, but it seems a bit limited as far as administration is concerned.

I would try ZPanel, but with all the security vulnerabilities, I don't think I can trust it - despite the fact that nobody but my friends will likely ever know that I'm using it.

I've also tried Kloxo-MR and it seems pretty feature packed, but the whole thing seems like it's going to fall apart any second. The interface is clumsy and somewhat unappealing.

Hopefully someone can suggest a better alternative. Thanks.

 

[SeriesN]

ISP-Config3.

 

[NodeDeals]

Virtualmin+webmin. I don't think any other free control panel comes close You may try Webuzo too ...

 

[mojeda]

I would try ZPanel, but with all the security vulnerabilities, I don't think know I can't trust it

 

 

[mikho]

Ispconfig3


The only panel i've installed to a customer (except the paid ones).

 

[Chronic]

ISP-Config3.

Ispconfig3


The only panel i've installed to a customer (except the paid ones).

Already tried ISPConfig and while it's pretty good, I missed a file manager. If nothing else, that's probably what I'll end up using.

Virtualmin+webmin. I don't think any other free control panel comes close You may try Webuzo too ...

Never tried these before, mainly because I found the demos to be somewhat spartan. Nonetheless, I'll dive in and see how it goes. Thanks.

 

[mikho]

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48134&page=2


Perhaps that thread gets you started on the filemanager thingy.

 

[MannDude]

Kloxo isn't half bad really. It was always my go-to panel if I needed something free and fast.

 

[NodeBytes]

Webmin. Favorite panel of em all. I have it on pretty much all my servers.

 

[Licensecart]

webmin control panel by far

 

[365Networks]

I agree on ISPConfig 3, compared to Webmin/Virtualmin it is much easier to administrate and use.

 

[shunny]

Have to agree ISPConfig3 is rather good. It has the ability for a distributed system as well plus one for this. 

 

[mikho]

In my little bubble webmin is not a hosting control panel, "only" a control panel.


It needs virtualmin, which I find cluttered and hard to find where to do things.

 

[Jamson]

Virtualmin+webmin. I don't think any other free control panel comes close You may try Webuzo too ...

+1 to Virtualmin/Webmin. The interface isn't that pretty, but it's absolutely brilliant.

 

[wilbo]

Webmin is the only panel I've ever used.

 

[netnub]

I was actually thinking about this also, I saw Ajenti and fell in-love with it, just debaiting to use it or not...

http://ajenti.org/#

 

[Chronic]

I was actually thinking about this also, I saw Ajenti and fell in-love with it, just debaiting to use it or not...

http://ajenti.org/#

Unfortunately from what I managed to gather, it is made for personal administration, not to provide shared web hosting.

 

[perennate]

There's EHCP, although it's probably even less secure than ZPanel.

 

[netnub]

You can always write your own?

 

[rsk]

Well to be honest, there are some hosts here that offer directadmin bundled with their plans. You should consider it, our shared hosting platform is completely run of a directadmin cluster. Easy on resources and feature packed.