cPanel Alternatives for Self-Hosted

Virtualmin is a powerful and flexible web hosting control panel for Linux and BSD systems. Virtualmin provides a cost-effective and comprehensive solution to virtual web hosting management. Virtualmin is avalible as a commnuity-supported version, while a commercial option includes premium support and more features. Currently, over 100,000 people and organizations use Virtualmin globally.

aaPanel is a free and open source web hosting control panel. It's a simple, yet powerful control panel that provides one click installs for LNMP and LAMP development stacks through an intuetive graphical user interface (GUI). aaPanel was designed to help you save time when deploying web sites and applications to the web. Allowing you to focus on building your project, rather than focusing on installation and configuration of servers and tooling. Over 3 million people use aaPanel to create quickly deployable web environments for Apache HTTP Server, Nginx and OpenLiteSpeed.

ZPanel is a free web hosting control panel for macOS, Linux and Windows-based servers. With ZPanel it's easy to manage your server for web hosting related tasks such as setting up server environments, managing DNS reccords and configuring SMTP.  The software is written in PHP and released as open source software under the GNU General Public License 3.0.

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration tool for Unix-like systems. You can use Webmin in any modern browser to setup and manage& user accounts, Apache web server, DNS configuration and alike. The software removes the mundane task of manually editing Unix configurations and allow you to easily setup hosting for applications, sites and web services.

Docker is an open-source platform that automates deployment and development life cycles with OS-level virtualization. These virtualization are called containers and contain application specific operating system, software and configurations that are built on deployment. Containers are encapsulated and work across systems, be it in local development or on production servers, they run anywhere. Docker provides a Community Edition (CE) and an Enterprise Edition (EE) and can be used for personal and enterprise level projects alike.

CapRover is an free and easy-to-use application deployment and server manager for NodeJS, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, WordPress and more. With CapRover you can create your own PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) similar to that of Heroku, and deploying it to your own cloud instance.

CyberPanel is a web hosting control panel that natively supports LiteSpeed Web Server, Email, DNS and FTP server and high performance, lightweight and a drop-in Apache replacement. The software free to use, but is also provided as CyberPanel Enterprise, with extended features for organizations with more requirements.

WampServer is a pre-configured web development stack for the Windows operating system. With WampServer it easy to manage a local web development environment that includes the Apache Web Server, the programming language PHP, combined with a MySQL or MariaDB database. WampServer comes with an installer that automatically installs everything you need to get started with the stack. Which makes WampServer a perfect choice for developer looking to quickly setup a local WAMP stack.

Cloudron immutable infrastructure platform that makes it easy to run and maintain web applications on your server. It allows you to easily migrate your apps across servers and cloud providers. Due to the complexity of self-hosting applications, Cloudron was built, so that you can focus on building and using your apps instead of worring about system administration and DevOps.

The Cockpit Project makes your Linux server more discoverable by providing an easy-to-use, integrated, and open web-based interface. With Cockpit you can view your server in a modern web browser and perform system tasks with mouse inputs, instead of using the terminal. Cockpit also makes it easy to start containers, administer storage, configure networks, and inspect logs.

Dokku is a free and open-source project that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications. With Dokku developers can setup their own PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) in a matter of minutes. Dokku provides extra plugins which can be used to manage database, and tools needed for your application. If you need to server your application over HTTPS, Dokku got you covered as well, with the help of Let's Encrypts free TLS certificates.