Comparison of web hosting control panels
Encyclopedia
The following tables compare general and technical information for a variety of web hosting control panel software packages.
access to the underlying OS through a Java applet, requiring that the client-side computer use Java Virtual Machine
software. Other control panels allow direct access using telnet
or secure shell
(SSH).
° Available through third-party script-installer plugin Installatron
.
Licence and Operating system support
| Control panel | Licence | Free Free software Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do... |
Open Source Open source The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology... |
Alive (last release) | BSD Berkeley Software Distribution Berkeley Software Distribution is a Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995... |
Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... |
Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... |
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| Baifox Baifox Baifox is a GPL lightweight control panel used by UNIX server administrators to configure and manage web servers. Whilst primarily tested with Debian, it also works with many other Linux distributions. Baifox is programmed in PHP and is accessible using a HTML and Javascript interface. It stores... |
GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... http://www.baifox.org/ |
http://www.baifox.org/ | 2009/04/19 | PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... , SQLite SQLite SQLite is an ACID-compliant embedded relational database management system contained in a relatively small C programming library. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain and implements most of the SQL standard... |
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| cPanel CPanel cPanel is a Linux based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site... |
Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
2011/09/10 | / Beta | Perl Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... |
Perl Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... |
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| DirectAdmin DirectAdmin DirectAdmin is a graphical web-based web hosting control panel designed to make administration of websites easier.- System requirements :DirectAdmin is compatible with several versions of Red Hat, Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Debian.The following specifications... |
Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
2011/09/01 | C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... |
C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... , scripts, PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
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| Domain Technologie Control Domain Technologie Control Domain Technologie Control is a web hosting control panel aimed at providing a graphics-oriented layout for managing commercial hosting of web servers, intended for shared web hosting servers, virtual private servers , and dedicated servers. Domain Technologie Control is free software released... |
GNU LGPL | 2010/09/?? | Limited FreeBSD support | PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
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| Gnupanel Gnupanel GNUPanel is a hosting control panel for Debian. It is written in PHP and it is tailored to run on 32 and 64 bit Debian GNU/Linux web hosting servers.... |
GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
2009/12/07 | PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
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| H-Sphere H-Sphere H-Sphere is a web hosting Automation Control Panel for shared web hosting services that was developed by Positive Software and acquired by Parallels, Inc. in September 2007. It is available for Linux, Unix and Windows environments and works with MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases... |
Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
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| HDE Controller X HDE Controller X HDE Controller X is a web-based system configuration tool for Linux. It allows server administrators to set up new websites, e-mail accounts, DNS entries, and much more through a web-based interface.... |
Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
2011/11/01 | PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
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| Hosting Controller Hosting Controller Hosting Controller or Hosting Controller Automation Solution is a commercial automation hosting program created by Advanced Communications of Los Angeles, California USA... |
Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
2011/09/05 | .NET .NET Framework The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability... |
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| i-MSCP I-MSCP i-MSCP is an open source project founded to build a Multi Server Control and Administration Panel. This Control Panel is usable by any Internet Service Provider .... |
GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
2011/10/25 | PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
Perl Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... |
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| InterWorx InterWorx InterWorx is web hosting control panel software developed by Interworx LLC. InterWorx was originally developed as an internal project of Nexcess.net LLC in the early 2000's, and was spun-off in 2004. The InterWorx control panel has also been referred to as the InterWorx Cluster Panel as it's... |
Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
2011/11/07 | PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... , MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My... |
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| ISPConfig ISPConfig ISPConfig is an open source hosting control panel for Linux. ISPConfig is licensed under BSD license. ISPConfig simplifies the complicated details of setting up DNS, multiple unique domain name websites on one physical server box, and e-mail accounts for multiple users on those websites.Setting up... |
BSD | 2011/11/02 | PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... , MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My... |
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| ispCP IspCP ispCP is an open source project founded to build a Multi Server Control and Administration Panel. This Control Panel is usable by any Internet Service Provider .... |
GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
2010/11/24 | PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
Perl Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... |
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| Kloxo (formerly named Lxadmin) Kloxo Kloxo is a free, opensource web hosting control panel for the Red Hat and CentOS Linux distributions.Kloxo allows the host administrators to run a combination of lighttpd or Apache with djbdns or bind, and provides a graphical interface to switch between these programs without losing data... |
AGPL Affero General Public License The Affero General Public License, often abbreviated as Affero GPL and AGPL , refers to two distinct, though historically related, free software licenses:... |
2011/11/13 | PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... , MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My... |
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| OpenPanel | GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... , Plugin API LGPL GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License... http://www.openpanel.com/legal/ |
http://www.openpanel.com/learn/the-openpanel-project/ | http://www.openpanel.com/learn/the-openpanel-project/ | 2011/07/08 | http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/572 | http://www.openpanel.com/learn/about-openpanel/ | http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/822 | C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... , AJAX Ajax - Mythology :* Ajax , son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as "Ajax the Great"* Ajax the Lesser, son of Oileus, ruler of Locris and the leader of the Locrian contingent during the Trojan War.- People :... |
Core: C++ C++ C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell... , Modules: Any language |
http://documentation.openpanel.com/index.php/Building_OpenPanel_Modules | http://www.openpanel.com/learn/about-openpanel/roadmap/ | http://www.openpanel.com/learn/about-openpanel/roadmap/ |
| Plesk Plesk The Parallels Plesk Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia, Plesk was acquired by SWSoft in July 2003... |
Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
2011/07/?? | PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... /MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My... |
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| SysCP SysCP SysCP is a software for administration of webservers based on and written in PHP and MySQL. It offers a web-based front end for customers of internet service providers, enabling them to manage their email addresses, domains and databases.The project was started in autumn 2003 by Florian Lippert... |
GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
2010/05/11 | PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... , MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My... |
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| Froxlor Froxlor Froxlor is a multilingual server-management-panel for Internet service providers , which want to offer a webinterface for their customers for managing e-mail-addresses, domains, FTP and more.- History :... |
GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
2011/10/31 | PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... , MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My... |
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| Usermin Usermin Usermin is a web-based user interface for Unix-like systems. It is a simplified version of Webmin, can be used by any user on a Unix system, and is distributed under the BSD licence. It consists of CGI programs in Perl that directly updates configuration files, and a simple web server... |
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| Virtualmin Virtualmin Virtualmin is a domain hosting and web site control panel, which gives the ability to create and manage many domains and is available in both Open Source and commercial versions. It is based on Webmin.-See also:* DirectAdmin* cPanel... |
GPL GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project.... |
2011/10/02 | http://www.virtualmin.com/os-support | Perl Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... |
Perl Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... |
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| Virtualmin Pro Virtualmin Virtualmin is a domain hosting and web site control panel, which gives the ability to create and manage many domains and is available in both Open Source and commercial versions. It is based on Webmin.-See also:* DirectAdmin* cPanel... |
Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary... |
2011/10/02 | http://www.virtualmin.com/os-support | Perl Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... |
Perl Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... |
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| Webmin Webmin Webmin is a web-based system configuration tool for Unix-like systems, although recent versions can also be installed and run on Windows. With it, it is possible to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services or configuration files, as well as modify and control open... |
BSD style | 2011/10/02 | Perl Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... |
Perl Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... |
Remote access
Some control panels allow shell (console)System console
The system console, root console or simply console is the text entry and display device for system administration messages, particularly those from the BIOS or boot loader, the kernel, from the init system and from the system logger...
access to the underlying OS through a Java applet, requiring that the client-side computer use Java Virtual Machine
Java Virtual Machine
A Java virtual machine is a virtual machine capable of executing Java bytecode. It is the code execution component of the Java software platform. Sun Microsystems stated that there are over 4.5 billion JVM-enabled devices.-Overview:...
software. Other control panels allow direct access using telnet
TELNET
Telnet is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communications facility using a virtual terminal connection...
or secure shell
Secure Shell
Secure Shell is a network protocol for secure data communication, remote shell services or command execution and other secure network services between two networked computers that it connects via a secure channel over an insecure network: a server and a client...
(SSH).
| Control panel | FTP File Transfer Protocol File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server... |
Anonymous FTP File Transfer Protocol File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server... |
Terminal System console The system console, root console or simply console is the text entry and display device for system administration messages, particularly those from the BIOS or boot loader, the kernel, from the init system and from the system logger... |
File Browse/Upload/Download using HTTP frontend |
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| Baifox Baifox Baifox is a GPL lightweight control panel used by UNIX server administrators to configure and manage web servers. Whilst primarily tested with Debian, it also works with many other Linux distributions. Baifox is programmed in PHP and is accessible using a HTML and Javascript interface. It stores... |
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| cPanel CPanel cPanel is a Linux based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site... |
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| DirectAdmin DirectAdmin DirectAdmin is a graphical web-based web hosting control panel designed to make administration of websites easier.- System requirements :DirectAdmin is compatible with several versions of Red Hat, Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Debian.The following specifications... |
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| Domain Technologie Control Domain Technologie Control Domain Technologie Control is a web hosting control panel aimed at providing a graphics-oriented layout for managing commercial hosting of web servers, intended for shared web hosting servers, virtual private servers , and dedicated servers. Domain Technologie Control is free software released... |
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| Gnupanel Gnupanel GNUPanel is a hosting control panel for Debian. It is written in PHP and it is tailored to run on 32 and 64 bit Debian GNU/Linux web hosting servers.... |
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| H-Sphere H-Sphere H-Sphere is a web hosting Automation Control Panel for shared web hosting services that was developed by Positive Software and acquired by Parallels, Inc. in September 2007. It is available for Linux, Unix and Windows environments and works with MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases... |
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| HDE Controller X HDE Controller X HDE Controller X is a web-based system configuration tool for Linux. It allows server administrators to set up new websites, e-mail accounts, DNS entries, and much more through a web-based interface.... |
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| Hosting Controller Hosting Controller Hosting Controller or Hosting Controller Automation Solution is a commercial automation hosting program created by Advanced Communications of Los Angeles, California USA... |
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| i-MSCP I-MSCP i-MSCP is an open source project founded to build a Multi Server Control and Administration Panel. This Control Panel is usable by any Internet Service Provider .... |
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| InterWorx InterWorx InterWorx is web hosting control panel software developed by Interworx LLC. InterWorx was originally developed as an internal project of Nexcess.net LLC in the early 2000's, and was spun-off in 2004. The InterWorx control panel has also been referred to as the InterWorx Cluster Panel as it's... |
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| ISPConfig ISPConfig ISPConfig is an open source hosting control panel for Linux. ISPConfig is licensed under BSD license. ISPConfig simplifies the complicated details of setting up DNS, multiple unique domain name websites on one physical server box, and e-mail accounts for multiple users on those websites.Setting up... |
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| ispCP IspCP ispCP is an open source project founded to build a Multi Server Control and Administration Panel. This Control Panel is usable by any Internet Service Provider .... |
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| Kloxo Kloxo Kloxo is a free, opensource web hosting control panel for the Red Hat and CentOS Linux distributions.Kloxo allows the host administrators to run a combination of lighttpd or Apache with djbdns or bind, and provides a graphical interface to switch between these programs without losing data... |
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| OpenPanel | http://documentation.openpanel.com/index.php/OpenPanel-CLI_Administration_Guide#FTP | http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/795 | http://www.openpanel.com/learn/about-openpanel/roadmap/ | http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/794 |
| Plesk Plesk The Parallels Plesk Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia, Plesk was acquired by SWSoft in July 2003... |
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| SysCP SysCP SysCP is a software for administration of webservers based on and written in PHP and MySQL. It offers a web-based front end for customers of internet service providers, enabling them to manage their email addresses, domains and databases.The project was started in autumn 2003 by Florian Lippert... |
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| Froxlor Froxlor Froxlor is a multilingual server-management-panel for Internet service providers , which want to offer a webinterface for their customers for managing e-mail-addresses, domains, FTP and more.- History :... |
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| Usermin Usermin Usermin is a web-based user interface for Unix-like systems. It is a simplified version of Webmin, can be used by any user on a Unix system, and is distributed under the BSD licence. It consists of CGI programs in Perl that directly updates configuration files, and a simple web server... |
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| Virtualmin Virtualmin Virtualmin is a domain hosting and web site control panel, which gives the ability to create and manage many domains and is available in both Open Source and commercial versions. It is based on Webmin.-See also:* DirectAdmin* cPanel... |
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| Virtualmin Pro Virtualmin Virtualmin is a domain hosting and web site control panel, which gives the ability to create and manage many domains and is available in both Open Source and commercial versions. It is based on Webmin.-See also:* DirectAdmin* cPanel... |
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| Webmin Webmin Webmin is a web-based system configuration tool for Unix-like systems, although recent versions can also be installed and run on Windows. With it, it is possible to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services or configuration files, as well as modify and control open... |
Email management
While all control panel software below supports multiple email accounts, the features they provide vary.| Control panel | Antivirus | Antispam | Forwarders | Mailbox quota | DomainKeys DomainKeys DomainKeys is an e-mail authentication system designed to verify the DNS domain of an e-mail sender and the message integrity. The DomainKeys specification has adopted aspects of Identified Internet Mail to create an enhanced protocol called DomainKeys Identified Mail... |
DKIM |
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| Baifox Baifox Baifox is a GPL lightweight control panel used by UNIX server administrators to configure and manage web servers. Whilst primarily tested with Debian, it also works with many other Linux distributions. Baifox is programmed in PHP and is accessible using a HTML and Javascript interface. It stores... |
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| cPanel CPanel cPanel is a Linux based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site... |
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| DirectAdmin DirectAdmin DirectAdmin is a graphical web-based web hosting control panel designed to make administration of websites easier.- System requirements :DirectAdmin is compatible with several versions of Red Hat, Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Debian.The following specifications... |
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| Domain Technologie Control Domain Technologie Control Domain Technologie Control is a web hosting control panel aimed at providing a graphics-oriented layout for managing commercial hosting of web servers, intended for shared web hosting servers, virtual private servers , and dedicated servers. Domain Technologie Control is free software released... |
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| Gnupanel Gnupanel GNUPanel is a hosting control panel for Debian. It is written in PHP and it is tailored to run on 32 and 64 bit Debian GNU/Linux web hosting servers.... |
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| H-Sphere H-Sphere H-Sphere is a web hosting Automation Control Panel for shared web hosting services that was developed by Positive Software and acquired by Parallels, Inc. in September 2007. It is available for Linux, Unix and Windows environments and works with MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases... |
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| HDE Controller X HDE Controller X HDE Controller X is a web-based system configuration tool for Linux. It allows server administrators to set up new websites, e-mail accounts, DNS entries, and much more through a web-based interface.... |
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| Hosting Controller Hosting Controller Hosting Controller or Hosting Controller Automation Solution is a commercial automation hosting program created by Advanced Communications of Los Angeles, California USA... |
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| i-MSCP I-MSCP i-MSCP is an open source project founded to build a Multi Server Control and Administration Panel. This Control Panel is usable by any Internet Service Provider .... |
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| InterWorx InterWorx InterWorx is web hosting control panel software developed by Interworx LLC. InterWorx was originally developed as an internal project of Nexcess.net LLC in the early 2000's, and was spun-off in 2004. The InterWorx control panel has also been referred to as the InterWorx Cluster Panel as it's... |
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| ISPConfig ISPConfig ISPConfig is an open source hosting control panel for Linux. ISPConfig is licensed under BSD license. ISPConfig simplifies the complicated details of setting up DNS, multiple unique domain name websites on one physical server box, and e-mail accounts for multiple users on those websites.Setting up... |
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| ispCP IspCP ispCP is an open source project founded to build a Multi Server Control and Administration Panel. This Control Panel is usable by any Internet Service Provider .... |
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| Kloxo Kloxo Kloxo is a free, opensource web hosting control panel for the Red Hat and CentOS Linux distributions.Kloxo allows the host administrators to run a combination of lighttpd or Apache with djbdns or bind, and provides a graphical interface to switch between these programs without losing data... |
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| OpenPanel | http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/785 | |||||
| Plesk Plesk The Parallels Plesk Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia, Plesk was acquired by SWSoft in July 2003... |
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| SysCP SysCP SysCP is a software for administration of webservers based on and written in PHP and MySQL. It offers a web-based front end for customers of internet service providers, enabling them to manage their email addresses, domains and databases.The project was started in autumn 2003 by Florian Lippert... |
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| Froxlor Froxlor Froxlor is a multilingual server-management-panel for Internet service providers , which want to offer a webinterface for their customers for managing e-mail-addresses, domains, FTP and more.- History :... |
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| Usermin Usermin Usermin is a web-based user interface for Unix-like systems. It is a simplified version of Webmin, can be used by any user on a Unix system, and is distributed under the BSD licence. It consists of CGI programs in Perl that directly updates configuration files, and a simple web server... |
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| Virtualmin Virtualmin Virtualmin is a domain hosting and web site control panel, which gives the ability to create and manage many domains and is available in both Open Source and commercial versions. It is based on Webmin.-See also:* DirectAdmin* cPanel... |
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| Virtualmin Pro Virtualmin Virtualmin is a domain hosting and web site control panel, which gives the ability to create and manage many domains and is available in both Open Source and commercial versions. It is based on Webmin.-See also:* DirectAdmin* cPanel... |
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| Webmin Webmin Webmin is a web-based system configuration tool for Unix-like systems, although recent versions can also be installed and run on Windows. With it, it is possible to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services or configuration files, as well as modify and control open... |
Third party modules
Web hosting packages often provide easy means of installing web services onto the server. Packaging services allow the control panel to fetch a list of installable modules from the internet, whilst hard-coded methods require that the control panel is updated to add new modules.| Control panel | Third Party Module Installation Methods | Modules Available | ||||||
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| Subscription Service | Free service | Allows Upgrades | Shopping cart Shopping cart software Shopping cart software is software used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases online, analogous to the American English term 'shopping cart'... |
Bulletin board Bulletin board A bulletin board is a surface intended for the posting of public messages, for example, to advertise things to buy or sell, announce events, or provide information... |
Gallery | Chat | Guestbook Guestbook A guestbook is a paper or electronic means for a visitor to acknowledge their visitation to a site, physical or web-based, and leave their name, postal or electronic address , and a comment or note, if desired... |
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| Baifox Baifox Baifox is a GPL lightweight control panel used by UNIX server administrators to configure and manage web servers. Whilst primarily tested with Debian, it also works with many other Linux distributions. Baifox is programmed in PHP and is accessible using a HTML and Javascript interface. It stores... |
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| cPanel CPanel cPanel is a Linux based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site... |
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| DirectAdmin DirectAdmin DirectAdmin is a graphical web-based web hosting control panel designed to make administration of websites easier.- System requirements :DirectAdmin is compatible with several versions of Red Hat, Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Debian.The following specifications... |
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| Domain Technologie Control Domain Technologie Control Domain Technologie Control is a web hosting control panel aimed at providing a graphics-oriented layout for managing commercial hosting of web servers, intended for shared web hosting servers, virtual private servers , and dedicated servers. Domain Technologie Control is free software released... |
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| Gnupanel Gnupanel GNUPanel is a hosting control panel for Debian. It is written in PHP and it is tailored to run on 32 and 64 bit Debian GNU/Linux web hosting servers.... |
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| H-Sphere H-Sphere H-Sphere is a web hosting Automation Control Panel for shared web hosting services that was developed by Positive Software and acquired by Parallels, Inc. in September 2007. It is available for Linux, Unix and Windows environments and works with MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases... |
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| HDE Controller X HDE Controller X HDE Controller X is a web-based system configuration tool for Linux. It allows server administrators to set up new websites, e-mail accounts, DNS entries, and much more through a web-based interface.... |
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| Hosting Controller Hosting Controller Hosting Controller or Hosting Controller Automation Solution is a commercial automation hosting program created by Advanced Communications of Los Angeles, California USA... |
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| i-MSCP I-MSCP i-MSCP is an open source project founded to build a Multi Server Control and Administration Panel. This Control Panel is usable by any Internet Service Provider .... |
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| InterWorx InterWorx InterWorx is web hosting control panel software developed by Interworx LLC. InterWorx was originally developed as an internal project of Nexcess.net LLC in the early 2000's, and was spun-off in 2004. The InterWorx control panel has also been referred to as the InterWorx Cluster Panel as it's... |
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| ISPConfig ISPConfig ISPConfig is an open source hosting control panel for Linux. ISPConfig is licensed under BSD license. ISPConfig simplifies the complicated details of setting up DNS, multiple unique domain name websites on one physical server box, and e-mail accounts for multiple users on those websites.Setting up... |
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| ispCP IspCP ispCP is an open source project founded to build a Multi Server Control and Administration Panel. This Control Panel is usable by any Internet Service Provider .... |
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| Kloxo Kloxo Kloxo is a free, opensource web hosting control panel for the Red Hat and CentOS Linux distributions.Kloxo allows the host administrators to run a combination of lighttpd or Apache with djbdns or bind, and provides a graphical interface to switch between these programs without losing data... |
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| OpenPanel | http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/820 | http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/820 | http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/820 http://www.apsstandard.org/app/ | http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/820 http://www.apsstandard.org/app/ | http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/820 http://www.apsstandard.org/app/ | http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/820 http://www.apsstandard.org/app/ | http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/820 http://www.apsstandard.org/app/ | |
| Plesk Plesk The Parallels Plesk Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia, Plesk was acquired by SWSoft in July 2003... |
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| SysCP SysCP SysCP is a software for administration of webservers based on and written in PHP and MySQL. It offers a web-based front end for customers of internet service providers, enabling them to manage their email addresses, domains and databases.The project was started in autumn 2003 by Florian Lippert... |
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| Froxlor Froxlor Froxlor is a multilingual server-management-panel for Internet service providers , which want to offer a webinterface for their customers for managing e-mail-addresses, domains, FTP and more.- History :... |
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| Usermin Usermin Usermin is a web-based user interface for Unix-like systems. It is a simplified version of Webmin, can be used by any user on a Unix system, and is distributed under the BSD licence. It consists of CGI programs in Perl that directly updates configuration files, and a simple web server... |
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| Virtualmin Virtualmin Virtualmin is a domain hosting and web site control panel, which gives the ability to create and manage many domains and is available in both Open Source and commercial versions. It is based on Webmin.-See also:* DirectAdmin* cPanel... |
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| Virtualmin Pro Virtualmin Virtualmin is a domain hosting and web site control panel, which gives the ability to create and manage many domains and is available in both Open Source and commercial versions. It is based on Webmin.-See also:* DirectAdmin* cPanel... |
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| Webmin Webmin Webmin is a web-based system configuration tool for Unix-like systems, although recent versions can also be installed and run on Windows. With it, it is possible to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services or configuration files, as well as modify and control open... |
° Available through third-party script-installer plugin Installatron
Installatron
Installatron is a multi-platform application installer that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting web applications. Installatron is available as a plug-in for popular web hosting control panels....
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Supported Backends
| Control panel | Web server Web server Web server can refer to either the hardware or the software that helps to deliver content that can be accessed through the Internet.... |
FTP server | Receive mail | Send mail | SQL SQL SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems .... |
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| Lighttpd Lighttpd lighttpd is an open-source web server more optimized for speed-critical environments than common products while remaining standards-compliant, secure and flexible... |
Apache Apache HTTP Server The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache , is web server software notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. In 2009 it became the first web server software to surpass the 100 million website milestone... |
PureFTPd | Vsftp | ProFTPd | Dovecot Dovecot (software) Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. Developed by Timo Sirainen, Dovecot was first released in July 2002... |
Courier Courier Mail Server The Courier mail server is a mail transfer agent server that provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, SMAP, webmail, and mailing list services with individual components. It is best known for its IMAP server component.... |
Exim Exim Exim is a mail transfer agent used on Unix-like operating systems. Exim is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail.... |
Sendmail Sendmail Sendmail is a general purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and -delivery methods, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol used for email transport over the Internet.... |
Postfix Postfix (software) In computing, Postfix is a free and open-source mail transfer agent that routes and delivers electronic mail. It is intended as a fast, easier-to-administer, and secure alternative to the widely-used Sendmail MTA.... |
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software... |
MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My... |
PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... |
Perl Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular... |
Python Python (programming language) Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive... |
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| Baifox Baifox Baifox is a GPL lightweight control panel used by UNIX server administrators to configure and manage web servers. Whilst primarily tested with Debian, it also works with many other Linux distributions. Baifox is programmed in PHP and is accessible using a HTML and Javascript interface. It stores... |
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| cPanel CPanel cPanel is a Linux based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site... |
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| DirectAdmin DirectAdmin DirectAdmin is a graphical web-based web hosting control panel designed to make administration of websites easier.- System requirements :DirectAdmin is compatible with several versions of Red Hat, Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Debian.The following specifications... |
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| Domain Technologie Control Domain Technologie Control Domain Technologie Control is a web hosting control panel aimed at providing a graphics-oriented layout for managing commercial hosting of web servers, intended for shared web hosting servers, virtual private servers , and dedicated servers. Domain Technologie Control is free software released... |
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| Gnupanel Gnupanel GNUPanel is a hosting control panel for Debian. It is written in PHP and it is tailored to run on 32 and 64 bit Debian GNU/Linux web hosting servers.... |
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| H-Sphere H-Sphere H-Sphere is a web hosting Automation Control Panel for shared web hosting services that was developed by Positive Software and acquired by Parallels, Inc. in September 2007. It is available for Linux, Unix and Windows environments and works with MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases... |
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| HDE Controller X HDE Controller X HDE Controller X is a web-based system configuration tool for Linux. It allows server administrators to set up new websites, e-mail accounts, DNS entries, and much more through a web-based interface.... |
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| Hosting Controller Hosting Controller Hosting Controller or Hosting Controller Automation Solution is a commercial automation hosting program created by Advanced Communications of Los Angeles, California USA... |
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| i-MSCP I-MSCP i-MSCP is an open source project founded to build a Multi Server Control and Administration Panel. This Control Panel is usable by any Internet Service Provider .... |
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| InterWorx InterWorx InterWorx is web hosting control panel software developed by Interworx LLC. InterWorx was originally developed as an internal project of Nexcess.net LLC in the early 2000's, and was spun-off in 2004. The InterWorx control panel has also been referred to as the InterWorx Cluster Panel as it's... |
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| ISPConfig ISPConfig ISPConfig is an open source hosting control panel for Linux. ISPConfig is licensed under BSD license. ISPConfig simplifies the complicated details of setting up DNS, multiple unique domain name websites on one physical server box, and e-mail accounts for multiple users on those websites.Setting up... |
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| ispCP IspCP ispCP is an open source project founded to build a Multi Server Control and Administration Panel. This Control Panel is usable by any Internet Service Provider .... |
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| Kloxo Kloxo Kloxo is a free, opensource web hosting control panel for the Red Hat and CentOS Linux distributions.Kloxo allows the host administrators to run a combination of lighttpd or Apache with djbdns or bind, and provides a graphical interface to switch between these programs without losing data... |
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| OpenPanel | http://bugtracker.openpanel.com/issues/799 | ||||||||||||||
| Plesk Plesk The Parallels Plesk Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia, Plesk was acquired by SWSoft in July 2003... |
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| SysCP SysCP SysCP is a software for administration of webservers based on and written in PHP and MySQL. It offers a web-based front end for customers of internet service providers, enabling them to manage their email addresses, domains and databases.The project was started in autumn 2003 by Florian Lippert... |
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| Froxlor Froxlor Froxlor is a multilingual server-management-panel for Internet service providers , which want to offer a webinterface for their customers for managing e-mail-addresses, domains, FTP and more.- History :... |
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| Usermin Usermin Usermin is a web-based user interface for Unix-like systems. It is a simplified version of Webmin, can be used by any user on a Unix system, and is distributed under the BSD licence. It consists of CGI programs in Perl that directly updates configuration files, and a simple web server... |
(Not officially) | (Not officially) | http://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?category=Virtualmin | ? | |||||||||||
| Virtualmin Virtualmin Virtualmin is a domain hosting and web site control panel, which gives the ability to create and manage many domains and is available in both Open Source and commercial versions. It is based on Webmin.-See also:* DirectAdmin* cPanel... |
(Not officially) | (Not officially) | http://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?category=Virtualmin | ? | |||||||||||
| Virtualmin Pro Virtualmin Virtualmin is a domain hosting and web site control panel, which gives the ability to create and manage many domains and is available in both Open Source and commercial versions. It is based on Webmin.-See also:* DirectAdmin* cPanel... |
(Not officially) | (Not officially) | http://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?category=Virtualmin | ? | |||||||||||
| webmin Webmin Webmin is a web-based system configuration tool for Unix-like systems, although recent versions can also be installed and run on Windows. With it, it is possible to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services or configuration files, as well as modify and control open... |
(Not officially) | (Not officially) | http://www.webmin.com/cgi-bin/search_third.cgi?category=Virtualmin | ? |