Which free webpanel do you use?

cybertech · March 2022

what i need:
lightweight, fast, responsive panel
Support either Alma/Rocky 8 or Debian 11
Nginx
up to date Php 8.1 with Phpredis
up to date Mariadb 10.7
one-click migration (nice to have)

hence aapanel fit the bill.

any others?

edit:
with the community's suggestion, was able to get hestiacp up and running well with the above (sans one-click migration)

with the really minimalist setup, it might just be faster than aapanel!

privateMode · March 2022

My friend just switched from DirectAdmin to Fastpanel.

Debian 8, 9, 10, 11 (64-bit)
Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 (64-bit)
CentOS 7 (64-bit)
AlmaLinux 8 (64-bit)
Rocky 8 (64-bit)

Check their wiki for further details.

Erisa · March 2022

I don't use any. Someone I know has a lot of success with HestiaCP, I tried it myself but panels aren't really my thing so it's hard to judge whether it's good or not.

bruh21 · March 2022

aaPanel all the way baby
I use it with centos 7 since it’s what it’s based off of but it works fine on centos 8 too. Have you tried it before or is it just on your list of ones to try?

cybertech · March 2022

@bruh21 said:
aaPanel all the way baby
I use it with centos 7 since it’s what it’s based off of but it works fine on centos 8 too. Have you tried it before or is it just on your list of ones to try?

im using aapanel since Centos7, then 8 and now debian 11.

always open to explore !

vyas · March 2022

free as in Beer or Free as in Freedom?
(someone had to bring it up! )

cybertech · March 2022

@vyas said:
free as in Beer or Free as in Freedom?
(someone had to bring it up! )

🍻 beer

Abdullah · March 2022

those requirements, aapanel is the only one comes to mind.

also give hestiacp a try

vyas · March 2022

@Abdullah said:
those requirements, aapanel is the only one comes to mind.

also give hestiacp a try

I missed the last part- Support either Alma/Rocky 8 or Debian 11

@cybertech,
Cloudron
cipi
VPSNoobs ( @AK_KWH )
Ajenti
Webmin
ISPConfig

longer list on my blog

Edit: Updated images. My last sync messed up the path

yokowasis · March 2022

Hestia FTW. They have complete , easy to understand API, perfect for automating things.

cybertech · March 2022

@yokowasis said:
Hestia FTW. They have complete , easy to understand API, perfect for automating things.

have heard multiple mentions about it, does it have nginx+php8.1+php-redis?

vyas · March 2022

@cybertech said:

@yokowasis said:
Hestia FTW. They have complete , easy to understand API, perfect for automating things.

have heard multiple mentions about it, does it have nginx+php8.1+php-redis?

Scroll to features and services

https://github.com/hestiacp/hestiacp

Installer script is nifty

https://gabizz.github.io/hestiacp-scriptline-generator/

Any bench for the server you will install this on?

cybertech · March 2022

@vyas said:

@cybertech said:

@yokowasis said:
Hestia FTW. They have complete , easy to understand API, perfect for automating things.

have heard multiple mentions about it, does it have nginx+php8.1+php-redis?

Scroll to features and services

https://github.com/hestiacp/hestiacp

Installer script is nifty

https://gabizz.github.io/hestiacp-scriptline-generator/

Any bench for the server you will install this on?

noice.

am testing fastpanel now, hestiacp next.

benches already been made, will be on one of them greencloudvps

sweatbar · March 2022

Hestiacp

vyas · March 2022

@cybertech said:

nginx+php8.1+php-redis?

Webinoly
Wordops

Cli. Latter has admin gui iirc

Since your Saturday is already occupied, thought Sunday should not feel left out

risharde · March 2022

I still use virtualmin, I absolutely hate the UI but it's very open to lots of technologies and since it's just for me, I haven't pushed for anything else. From a consumer perspective, I have subscribed in to this thread to see what might be out there

Just realized it mine doesn't have php8, sorry if the post seemed spammy.

Ryujin · March 2022

It does not fit your requirements as it only supports centos 7 for now but centminmod is a great nginx stack, the dev tuned it to utilize the best of nginx & made it to one of the best out of the box stack. It is a cli based panel though so its attack surface is just your public facing application if you turn off its ftp feature.

AlwaysSkint · March 2022

Take a look at TinyCP; not sure it'll meet all your criteria though. I'd think 1-click migration is a non-starter, for example.

Matt247 · March 2022

I switched to https://hestiacp.com great free webpanel. It doesn't have redis out of the box but you can manually install it.

Ganonk · March 2022

webmin always

how · March 2022

aapanel

legendary · March 2022

Ispconfig3. You can strip it down to mere barebones via config upon installation. It has clustering as bonus.

Hestiacp is also nice panel. There is a ton of options for personal use. Depends on os and UI preference.

cybertech · March 2022

have been trying out hestiacp, and its really nice, but ran into an issue i wonder if anyone here has had experience with.

my staging was able to work, loads fine but when i try to update it this happens:

- mariadb 10.6
- redis
- Php8.1 + php-redis
- session handler = redis
- session.save_path = "tcp://127.0.0.1:6379"


fault when updating my site causing PHP error:
session_start(): Failed to read session data: redis (path: /home/admin/tmp)

just hoping to get pointed in the right direction for me to investigate if its not too complicated :P

Falzo · March 2022

@cybertech said:
have been trying out hestiacp, and its really nice, but ran into an issue i wonder if anyone here has had experience with.

my staging was able to work, loads fine but when i try to update it this happens:

> - mariadb 10.6
> - redis
> - Php8.1 + php-redis
> - session handler = redis
> - session.save_path = "tcp://127.0.0.1:6379"
> 
> 
> fault when updating my site causing PHP error:
> session_start(): Failed to read session data: redis (path: /home/admin/tmp)
>

just hoping to get pointed in the right direction for me to investigate if its not too complicated :P

most likely a permission issue. afaik that specific tmp folder is not world readable, so redis might really and simply not be able to access it, if it does not run under the right owner. but I am a bit out of loop for the development so I can't say since when or why it is this way. maybe search or write something in the forum over there, right now I sadly have not much time to dive deeper into it...

on a seperate note, it's not advisable to host anything under that admin account itself anymore, but instead create a seperate one with no sudo rights. could well be, that there are also implications here to restrict the admin account in a way to make the whole thing more secure ;-)

cybertech · March 2022

@Falzo said:

@cybertech said:
have been trying out hestiacp, and its really nice, but ran into an issue i wonder if anyone here has had experience with.

my staging was able to work, loads fine but when i try to update it this happens:

> > - mariadb 10.6
> > - redis
> > - Php8.1 + php-redis
> > - session handler = redis
> > - session.save_path = "tcp://127.0.0.1:6379"
> > 
> > 
> > fault when updating my site causing PHP error:
> > session_start(): Failed to read session data: redis (path: /home/admin/tmp)
> >

just hoping to get pointed in the right direction for me to investigate if its not too complicated :P

most likely a permission issue. afaik that specific tmp folder is not world readable, so redis might really and simply not be able to access it, if it does not run under the right owner. but I am a bit out of loop for the development so I can't say since when or why it is this way. maybe search or write something in the forum over there, right now I sadly have not much time to dive deeper into it...

on a seperate note, it's not advisable to host anything under that admin account itself anymore, but instead create a seperate one with no sudo rights. could well be, that there are also implications here to restrict the admin account in a way to make the whole thing more secure ;-)

thanks for the tip, yeah I've been searching around for permission issues, probably just havent nailed it yet.

and yes im trying out using admin account, probably good to follow the proper procedures to this as well.

air · March 2022

aapanel

vikram · June 2022

@cybertech checkout cloudpanel v2

kaokao2222 · June 2022

@Falzo are you HestiaCP's forum moderator, right bro

Aractus · June 2022

@risharde said: I still use virtualmin, I absolutely hate the UI but it's very open to lots of technologies and since it's just for me, I haven't pushed for anything else. From a consumer perspective, I have subscribed in to this thread to see what might be out there

Just realized it mine doesn't have php8, sorry if the post seemed spammy.

That's because they don't build PHP for you, you're relying on the system's repository which by default is the one provided by the OS - as an example RHEL 9 provides 8.0 currently. If you want 8.1 you need to add a 3rd-party repo or build it yourself. For RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/Alma/Fedora you can use Remi's one, and for Ubuntu/Debian you can use Ondřej Surý's ones - ppa:ondrej/php for Ubuntu, packages.sury.org/php for Debian.

Amadex · June 2022

Free: Keyhelp
Paid: Plesk

cybertech · June 2022

@vikram said:
@cybertech checkout cloudpanel v2

does it have php8.0-redis, opcache etc?

Which free webpanel do you use?

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