The 7 best FREE cPanel alternatives (2020 edition)

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cPanel

It surprises a lot of our new users when they find out that cPanel isn’t free. In fact, cPanel looks to punish small companies and individual developers the most, with single-license plans starting at $15/month. That’s 2x what most of our users pay per month for their server! So it makes sense that a lot of you are looking for a free cPanel alternative.

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Webmin

Whether you’re running Ubuntu, Debian, or CentOS, the Webmin developers have a package and installation procedure for you. If you’d like to dig in a little deeper, Webmin’s source code is available on GitHub.

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Control Web Panel

To install, you need an updated CentOS installation, a functioning LAMP stack, and at least 1GB of RAM. Unfortunately, the CentOS Web Panel code is not fully open-source, but it’s a feature-rich cPanel alternative that’s completely free to use.

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Ajenti

Ajenti is a great free control panel for those who already have a few services running on their server. Other panels simply wipe out existing configurations, but Ajenti promises to at least attempt to pick up your current configuration without changing it. Ajenti also considers itself “caring,” in that all changes are non-destructive and won’t overwrite your files, options, and comments.

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YunoHost

You can administer your VPS via the YunoHost web interface or the command line. YunoHost officially supports Debian 8 and is coded primarily in Python under an open source GPL license. The code is available on GitHub.

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Froxlor

Froxlor has Debian packages available and a .tar.gz for production installations. Only Debian is officially supported, but it seems possible, with a little effort, to install it on Ubuntu as well. Froxlor is licensed under GPL 2.0, with source code on GitHub.

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ISPConfig

The most unique feature of ISPConfig is its ability to manage multiple servers from a single control panel. If you’ll be working with more than one server and want a consistent experience across all of them without having to install the same control panel on each one, ISPConfig just might be the free cPanel alternative that can make your life easier.

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Vesta Control Panel

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Cloudron

We only focused on free cPanel alternatives in this post, but there are are some excellent paid solutions too, such as Cloudron, Plesk, and ClusterCS, but that’s a topic for another day!

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Plesk

We only focused on free cPanel alternatives in this post, but there are are some excellent paid solutions too, such as Cloudron, Plesk, and ClusterCS, but that’s a topic for another day!

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ClusterCS

We only focused on free cPanel alternatives in this post, but there are are some excellent paid solutions too, such as Cloudron, Plesk, and ClusterCS, but that’s a topic for another day!

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