GNUPanel is a completely free (GPL) replacement for proprietary web hosting automation software. GNUPanel is under development, focusing on translation efforts that permit the entire free software community to participate. Currently, GNUPanel is Debian-centric, however, a distro-agnostic approach is planned.

It is written mainly in PHP 5 and initially designed to run on 32 or 64 bits Debian GNU/linux.

The administrator can manage a web hosting server, create public and private hosting accounts, accept Paypal, Cuentadigital and Dineromail payments, send messages to users, create redirections, use the integrated support ticket system, control bandwidth, disk space and define policies for accounts suspension.

The users can use the regular functions to create mail and FTP accounts, databases, directories protection, etc. In addition they can make payments, place domains in parking and activate or deactivate in each subdomain PHP directives like safe_mode and register_globals.

GNUPANEL(http://gnupanel.org/)



Domain Technologie Control”DTC” is a GPL web control panel for admin and accounting hosting services :
Domain Technologie Control (DTC) is a control panel aiming at commercial hosting. Using a web GUI for the administration and accounting all hosting services, DTC can delegate the task of creating subdomains, email, ssh, database, mailing lists, and FTP accounts to users for the domain names they own.
DTC manages a MySQL database containing all the hosting informations, and configure your server’s services and application for doing virtual hosting (DTC is compatible with a huge list of applications). It also connects to dtc-xen to manage and monitor the usage of Virtual Private Servers (VPS), it does the billing in general (including billing of dedicated servers), has integrated support tickets and more.
DTC is also the only control panel that made it to the distributions (it is included in FreeBSD and Debian as of writing), as it uses only packages available in them, surpassing even commercial solutions.

In short, DTC is THE hosting software you need for everyday server administration if you do web, dns, ftp or mail hosting.

Domain Technologie Control(http://www.gplhost.com/software-dtc.html)



Baifox is a GPL control panel to managed services of a hosting service. It doesn’t try to compete with Cpanel, Plesk or Ensim propietary software, but sometime, could be a good alternative. Baifox is really lighter than others panel, don’t disturb server with heavy loads and cpu consume, only manage services. You can adapt baifox to your needs. Also, unlike other propietary software, it works in most linux distribution and it has been widely tested in DEBIAN.

Baifox (http://www.baifox.org/)


Aug 31

Control panel refers in web hosting industry to the web interface provided by the hosting provider for the administration an control of the hosted websites, databases, emails and lot more. If you need a control panel for your server or VPS here is a list of a few I know:

Baifox
cPanel
DirectAdmin
Domain Technologie Control
Gnupanel
H-Sphere
Hosting Controller
InterWorx
ISPConfig
Lxadmin (now Kloxo)
Plesk
SysCP
Usermin
Virtualmin
Virtualmin Pro
Webmin

This control panels will really make your life simpler by helping you manage your server or VPS. I have tested them on a vps and they all were good for my expectation got my vps all set up in a matter of minutes on some of this control panels.





BurstNET, is offering their Basic managed VPS Package #1 for $5.95/month. They have been in business for several years. Their $5.95/Month plan will get you:

  • 512MB guaranteed memory
  • 20GB storage
  • 1,000GB/month data transfer
  • 1GHz guaranteed CPU
  • CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo
  • OpenVZ/vePortal

I use one of this Vps Package running a few domains and is fast enough, if you are on a shared hosting account and your site is growing is time to move to a Vps.