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A List Of Free And Open Source Control Panels

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Introduction
To manage your websites remotely you need to use control panel. With such tools you will have the possibility to manage all your web services under the same location which is very fantastic. Without control panel, you will need to install or compile specific tools such as: Php, MySQL and others on your host server which is not usually recommended with normal people. Since they need to have technical knowledge. With control panel, no expert knowledge of server administration is needed, just install it and benefit of its features. These web based control panels offers you the possibility also to manage your emails accounts, FTP accounts, disk space, bandwidth and many others.

The most known and powerful control panels are cPanel and Plesk. Unfortunately they are paid softwares and a monthly fee will be demanded to install them on the suitable server. But don’t worry, there are other alternative open source control panels available for every one with the same features and no fees are required. You will discover those tools in our article then later you can give us your attitudes.

ISPconfig
ISPconfig is Open source, BSD-licensed, hosting control panel for Linux, designed to manage Apache, BIND, FTP, and databases, supporting many Linux distributions.With the ISPConfig Monitor App, you can check your server status and find out if all services are running as expected. You can check TCP and UDP ports and ping your servers. ISPConfig is multiserver-capable, you can check all servers that are controlled from your ISPConfig master server.

Concerning its features we can list the following:

Manage one or more servers from one control panel.
Supports Many Linux Distributions
Support For Many Daemons
Managed Services
Translated In More Than 20 Languages
For download and usage instructions, please visit the official website.

ZPanel
ZPanel is a free and complete web hosting control panel for Microsoft® Windows™ and POSIX (Linux, UNIX and MacOSX) based servers. ZPanel is written in PHP and uses several open-source (or freely available) software packages to provide a secure, web hosting system.

ZPanel comes with a core set of ‘essential’ modules to help you run a web hosting service these range from Server resource monitoring to DNS management.

The core comes includes Apache Web Server, hMailServer,FileZilla Server, MySQL, PHP, Webalizer, RoundCube, phpMyAdmin, phpSysInfo, FTP Jailing and many more.

For download and usage instructions, please visit the official website

Webmin
Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.

We can list the following features of Webmin

  • Configure and create virtual server on Apache.
  • Manage, install or delete a software packages (RPM format).
  • For security you can set up firewall.
  • Modify DNS settings, IP address, routing configuration.
  • Manage database, tables and fields on MySQL.

For download and usage instructions, please visit the official website.

For more opensource panels. Visit this link

[Source] https://www.unixmen.com/list-free-open-source-control-panels/

 

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