Free Web Hosting Control Panels – Part 1

When it comes to professional web hosting, I rather use commercial control panels. But there are times when free control panels will do the job just just well.

I’ve gathered a list of some free hosting control panels for you to check them out.

AlternC

AlternC is an open source hosting control panel made for Debian. It offers two management levels (user and administrator). Most of the website is written in french.

Latest version: 0.9.7

Website: http://www.alternc.org/

ASM

Account Services Manager is a web-based account manager for UNIX web hosts so that clients can manage services such as FTP accounts, POP3 accounts, Subdomains, Password-protected folders, etc.

Latest version: 0.9.4

Website: http://www.acctmgr.com/

DTC

Using a web GUI for admin and accounting all hosting services, DTC can delegate the task of creating subdomains, email, and FTP accounts to users for the domain names they own. DTC manages a MySQL database containing all the hosting information. It has support for many programs (bind 8 and 9 and compatibles, MySQL, Apache 1.3, php4, qmail, postfix 2, courier, dovecot, proftpd, webalizer, mod-log-sql, etc.) through config files and/or MySQL plugins (when the service is non-critical). It can also generate backup scripts, calculation scripts, and config files using a single system UID/GID and monitor all traffic accounting per user and per service. Since version 0.12, DTC is fully skinable and translated into several languages (Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Russian, Hungarian, Romanian and Polish).

Latest version: 0.27.2 R1

Website: http://www.gplhost.com/software-dtc.html

ISPConfig

I gotta admit this is my favorite free control panel. It has 3 levels of management: user, reseller and server administration. While the server administration doesn’t offer as much as I’d like (like package installation), it remains a an easy to easy and very stable control panel. ISPConfig allows you to manage most web services such as MySQL, httpd, email, etc. This control panel can be used on most Linux distributions.

Latest version: 2.2.19

Website: http://www.ispconfig.org/

Free Web Hosting Control Panels – Part 2