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Open Source Control Panel Closest to cPanel?
Which open source control panel looks and feels the most like cPanel? My guess is OVI Panel is closest to cPanel but is it open source because I see they charge $5/month but also offer a free version? (See https://www.ovipanel.in/ )
Are PHP control panels less secure and why?
Partial list below:
1/2. Cyber Panel - Popular on LET - https://cyberpanel.net/
Ajenti - http://ajenti.org/
Kloxo-Mr - PHP5
Webmin (lite version of Virtualmin)
Sentora - http://Sentora.org
CentOS Web Panel
Virtualmin
ISPConfig - https://www.ispconfig.org/
Vesta - https://vestacp.com/
BlueOnyx - https://www.blueonyx.it/
zPanel - (earlier outdated version of Sentora)
Froxlor
Ovi Panel (Free Version) https://www.ovipanel.in/
AAPanel - Not PHP - https://www.aapanel.com/feature.html
Hestia Panel - https://www.hestiacp.com/
i-MSCP - https://i-mscp.net/
GNU Panel -https://wp.geeklab.com.ar/gl/gnupanel-en/
ZesleCP - https://zeslecp.com/
Cloudron - https://www.cloudron.io/
SolidCP
Website Panel - https://www.websitepanel.net/
Comments
Is this some sort of marketing for Ovipanel as you only gave backlinks to that? Also you joined March 12. Also the panel you are talking about is Sentora fork which uses GPL3 licensing and Ovipanel never published it's code and made it proprietary which breaks GPL3 licensing rule.
Haha not long after I posted this https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1840147&page=2&p=10296662#post10296662
Coincidence.
3) CentOS Web Panel> @Boogeyman said:
No, I'm specific about OVI panel because maybe it doesn't belong on this list and asking if that's the case.
If you download the free version of OVI Panel, you don't have access to the source code? Thus not open source?
I'm slowly editing my post to add more links to other Panels while driving in my car.
Smells.
Nope. As cPanel increasing price drastically everyone that are capable to make a panel wants to enter this market. Also this has related market like sysadmin work, etc. And some startups wants to use this opportunity.
The moment you disclose your identity you will be reported to police.
Of course not, but this is unresponsible.
Eh, that's illegal and be sure to post an update if you met an accident.
CentOS Web Panel seems to be the closest in looks. But, there dev/support seems to be pathetic.
Do take a look at HestiaCP which is very actively developed and supported.
Is HestiaCP open source and does it have a similar look and feel to cPanel?
Sue.
PHP has a lot of exploits that could be used to compromise a panel(especially the older versions), there are panels that are secure that are written in PHP, but they are paid, close source, and have a team of devs constantly patching it. But more and more panels use newer versions of PHP and are more secure, btw there is no such thing as perfectly secure Control PAnel, there always will be an exploit.
I personally use Cyberpanel, there is a review stating it has a lot of exploits that people provide, but if ya actually read the article, you will see that cyberpanel worked with them to patch those exploits up, and there is now Cyberpanel Cloud, which lets you have a paid version of Cyberpanel to have more perks, like support via live chat, WordPress manager, etc... And it's written in Js mostly.
And because Cyberpanel cloud is paid that means you have a dev that's working on it 24/7, oh and Ctyberpanel that you are able to install on a Dedi or VPS will be forever open source.
Less secure than what?
Modern PHP in the hands of competent developers has no need to be less secure than any other modern language & framework.
PHP earned a reputation (and earned it well) for being the source of insecure and otherwise unreliable scripts some time ago, for a few reasons including:
It probably isn't fair to base an opinion of PHP on how things were a decade and a half ago or before, though there is still a lot of bad code out there (some of it new) but you can say that of other systems too.
Jarland or cociu?
None and both.
Nah the great Python from amazon.
There was no PHP 6.
Not them using more CSS than python
And no Typescript must have confused myself with some other project on Github
Well, there was but it was never released as a stable product. Enough of it was rolled back and redone that they chose to skip a version number, as the number of books & articles referencing PHP6 but meaning the abandoned design would have caused a lot of confusion.
As I worked in CyberPanel project for sometime I clearly understand how things work in that project. Inputs are passed via JS to an endpoint later to be processed by Python. The backend is completely Python and for frontend HTML, CSS, JS. And installers are written in shell-scripting.
Also PHP is used in quickly made scripts, which don't have security in mind whatsoever, thus people weren't even making them secure, and to this day it's done, and makes a lot of quickly assembled scripts from garbage that give PHP more of that insecure smell.
Would be interesting to see an attempt to write panel in pure CSS...
So python does most of the work, and javascript is just more commonly used, so we technically are both right.
Missing !important
Yeah
Agree, that's far more correct statement than mine.
Is Cyber Panel the only open source control panel you're aware of not written in PHP?
In your opinion is Cyber Panel more secure because of the presumably less hacks for Python and more hackers proficient in PHP?
(Like how hackers focus more on PCs instead of Apples due to the sheer numbers of PCs).
Does it look and feel much like CPanel?
No. There is also aapanel (which i have used), and many more...
Not really, as I said PHP has a stigma of being insecure because of abandoned projects and people who need quick scripts made in 2 mins that don't have security in mind at all. And not only that but js and node.js and any other framework based on js is WAY faster than PHP
It pretty much has the same functions, I have used a lot of panels (incl. cPanel, DA, etc...)
And it's mostly the layout that changes but it's very easy to get used to.
And don't forget that you will never receive the same amount of security and updates for nothing compared to 10 bucks p/m
Btw i have used Cyberpanel for a while and had a lot of help from people here on LET, and their discord, and now I know many ins and outs of it and am happy to help set it up. But I probably will never achieve the same level of knowingness as @Boogeyman because he has literally helped make cyberpanel what it is.
I am also currently trying aapanel and found it's easy to use due to simple gui and 1 click installs.
As you are using cyberpanel too, can nginx be installed on it? And how is cyberpanel compared to aapanel for ease of use?
There are other panels in the market that is not written with PHP. Look for any comparison site, you will find out.
Bad practices can always lead to vulnerability whatever language it is.
It doesn't look like cPanel but it is somewhat like cPanel with it's features. And in upcoming releases it will have more good features.
No.
Please, from the best of your knowledge, can you compare the pros & cons of AAPanel vs. Cyber Panel?
Do you feel Cyber Panel is more secure?
Does AApanel also use Python and Javascript similarly?
How much/month is Cyberpanel Cloud & is it more secure than the non-cloud version?