cPanel

1Panel

1Panel is a modern, open-source Linux server management panel and lightweight AI management platform, positioned as an open-source alternative to cPanel and Plesk. Through a web-based GUI it handles host monitoring, file management, database management, Docker container management, website deployment, and a curated app store of 187+ one-click applications.

Plesk

Plesk is a hosting control panel and server management platform for web professionals, offering a centralized dashboard to manage multiple websites, servers, and hosting infrastructure. It provides broad security controls across the OS, network, and applications, plus WP Toolkit for WordPress installation, staging, and updates. Unlike cPanel, Plesk supports both Linux and Windows servers and works across major cloud providers including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and DigitalOcean. Over 100 extensions cover SSL, backups, Docker, and developer tooling, making it popular with agencies and IT admins managing mixed environments.

RunCloud

RunCloud is a server management control panel that lets developers and agencies deploy and manage websites on their own cloud servers from providers like DigitalOcean, AWS, Vultr, Linode, Hetzner, and Google Cloud. It provides a graphical interface over Linux server administration tasks, so teams can run their own infrastructure without deep command-line expertise.

CyberPanel

CyberPanel is a free, open-source web hosting control panel for managing servers and websites, built on top of OpenLiteSpeed, which it advertises as up to 10x faster than Apache. It supports unlimited domains, one-click Let's Encrypt SSL, automated WordPress installs with staging and LiteSpeed Cache, and a full email server stack using Postfix, Dovecot, and Rspamd for spam filtering. It also includes a Docker manager for one-click app deployment (n8n, Redis, MongoDB, and more), ModSecurity WAF and firewall management, AI-powered malware scanning, and flexible backups to local, SFTP, S3, or Google Drive. CyberPanel's core panel is free forever, with optional paid add-ons for extended Apache compatibility and premium management tools.

Webmin

Webmin is a free, open-source web-based system administration tool for Unix-like servers, with roughly one million installations worldwide. It lets administrators configure operating system internals such as users, disk quotas, and services, and manage popular open-source software including BIND DNS, Apache, PHP, and MySQL through a browser. Recent releases have added modules for nftables firewall management, Nginx configuration, and systemd service control, plus enterprise-oriented features like role-based access and two-factor authentication. Its companion projects, Usermin and Virtualmin, extend it into a user-facing panel and a full hosting control panel respectively.