There is a free version which gives you unlimited websites, firewall configuration, server security updates AND API Access (Awesome!). ServerPilot is geared a little more towards developers more so than end users, but if you are a developer or a power-user, this is definitively a tool to checkout! You can also quickly and easily setup a database via ServerPilot. ServerPilot also makes it really easy to deploy PHP applications by separating each app with its own system user, SSH/SFTP account and even PHP Version. ServerPilot also keeps your packages up to date, monitors the system and gives you a nice interface to look through all of the statistics, logs and usage.
#CPANEL ALTERNATIVE INSTALL#
To use ServerPilot you need to have a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 (Because it’s the latest Long Term Release) server, and run the command that is specified in their documentation, this will install the serverpilot agent and set up all the necessary stuff for you, once that is done, you simply login to and click Connect Server, you will then be prompted to name your server and give the ServerPilot agent a password, you then get a command specific to your server and user that you will need to paste into the terminal on your server via SSH (or using something like Putty on Windows) ServerPilot is a relatively new Control Panel type application that you don’t have to install on your server in order to use, it is all in one central location which connects to your server using their “agent”.
These are all in random orders and I didn’t want to rate them or call one better than the other, some of these might not suit your needs and some might be perfect, it’s all subjective…įor anyone wondering, the WHM part of the name CPanel/ WHM is the Web Host Manager part of CPanel, it is the back-end part of CPanel where you setup hosting plans and configure the server.
Keep in mind that this list is based on my requirements and experiences and there might be better control panels out there that suits your need better. Often the ones I find are either outdated, doesn’t work or horribly insecure, I’ve looked around the internet extensively as well as looked at other blogs giving their alternatives to CPanel, one of the most comprehensive that I could find was Lord Matt’s blog. Therefore I’ve often looked for alternatives to CPanel, both for curiosity and because I wanted something free that i could throw on a VPS and host web development client’s websites as well as my own little projects and such. The problem with CPanel is that for individuals and tinkers who runs their own servers, and want to host their websites on them, CPanel is not free and will cost you around $14.95 USD / Month ( From LicensePal). It is a very VERY popular, powerful and awesome control panel to manage your websites, emails and various other things, it’s the most used hosting control panel in the world and I love working with it. If you’ve ever purchased web hosting or helped a client with setting up their site on inmotion, hostgator or godaddy you’re very likely to have come across a control panel known as CPanel.
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