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cPanel

Control panels · by WebPros

Hosting control panel paired with WHM, used by many shared and reseller hosts to manage sites, email, databases and DNS.

  • Runs on your own server
  • Has an API

Plesk

Control panels · by WebPros

Server control panel for Linux and Windows that manages websites, mail, databases and WordPress installs from one dashboard.

  • Runs on your own server
  • Has an API

DirectAdmin

Control panels ·

Lightweight hosting control panel for web, mail and DNS, often chosen by smaller hosts for its low resource use.

  • Runs on your own server

CloudPanel

Control panels ·

Free control panel built for PHP applications on cloud servers, with NGINX, Varnish and ready-made site templates.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Runs on your own server

HestiaCP

Control panels · by Hestia Control Panel

Open-source control panel for web, mail, DNS and databases on Debian and Ubuntu servers.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

CyberPanel

Control panels ·

Control panel built around OpenLiteSpeed, with one-click WordPress, email accounts and backups.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

Webmin

Control panels ·

Browser-based system administration tool for Unix servers covering users, services, packages and configuration files.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

ISPConfig

Control panels ·

Open-source hosting control panel that can manage several servers, from web and mail to DNS, from one interface.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

Ploi

Server management platforms ·

Server management panel that sets up and deploys PHP sites on servers you rent, with backups and SSL included.

  • Has an API

SpinupWP

Server management platforms ·

Server control panel built for WordPress that provisions cloud servers with page caching and site isolation.

  • Built for WordPress sites

Coolify

Server management platforms ·

Open-source, self-hostable platform for deploying apps, databases and services to your own servers with Git-based deploys.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

CapRover

Server management platforms ·

Open-source platform that turns a server into a simple app host with one-click apps, Docker deploys and automatic HTTPS.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

Dokku

Server management platforms ·

Small open-source platform that deploys apps to your own server with git push, in the style of Heroku.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

ChatGPT

AI assistants for sysadmins · by OpenAI

OpenAI assistant that sysadmins use to explain errors, draft scripts and config files, and read logs pasted into a chat.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Has an API

Claude

AI assistants for sysadmins · by Anthropic

Anthropic assistant used for reading long logs and configs, drafting runbooks and writing shell scripts.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Has an API

Warp

AI assistants for sysadmins ·

Terminal app with a built-in AI agent that suggests commands, explains output and can run multi-step tasks with your approval.

  • Free plan or free to use

GitHub Copilot

AI assistants for sysadmins · by GitHub

AI coding assistant for editors, the command line and GitHub, often used for shell scripts, Ansible roles and config files.

  • Free plan or free to use

Ollama

AI assistants for sysadmins ·

Runs open language models on your own machine or server, so logs and configs you ask about stay on your network.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

JetBackup

Backup and restore · by JetApps

Backup system for hosting servers that lets customers restore their own files, databases and email from the control panel.

  • Runs on your own server

Restic

Backup and restore ·

Open-source command-line backup program with encrypted, deduplicated snapshots to local disks or cloud storage.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

BorgBackup

Backup and restore ·

Open-source deduplicating backup tool with compression and encryption, popular for server backups over SSH.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

UpdraftPlus

Backup and restore ·

WordPress backup plugin that schedules backups of files and database to remote storage and restores them.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Built for WordPress sites

BlogVault

Backup and restore ·

Backup and staging service for WordPress sites that keeps copies off the server and supports one-click restores.

  • Built for WordPress sites

Duplicati

Backup and restore ·

Free, open-source backup client that stores encrypted backups on cloud storage and network drives.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

Migrate Guru

Site and mail migration · by BlogVault

Free WordPress migration service that copies large sites between hosts, doing the heavy lifting on its own servers.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Built for WordPress sites

Duplicator

Site and mail migration ·

WordPress plugin that packages a site into an installer and archive for moving, cloning or backing it up.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Built for WordPress sites

rsync

Site and mail migration · by Samba project

Long-standing open-source tool for copying and syncing files between servers, sending only the parts that changed.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

imapsync

Site and mail migration ·

Command-line tool that copies mailboxes between IMAP servers, often used when moving email to a new host.

  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

Cloudflare DNS

DNS management · by Cloudflare

Cloudflare's authoritative DNS service with a web dashboard and API, often used together with its proxy and SSL.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Has an API

Amazon Route 53

DNS management · by Amazon Web Services

Amazon DNS service for domains, routing policies and health checks, managed from the AWS console, CLI or API.

  • Has an API

DNSimple

DNS management ·

Domain registration and DNS hosting with an API and automation for teams that manage many domains.

  • Has an API

Cloud DNS

DNS management · by Google Cloud

Managed authoritative DNS on Google Cloud, with zones and records managed through the console, gcloud or API.

  • Has an API

PowerDNS

DNS management ·

Open-source authoritative DNS server and recursor, used by hosting providers to run their own name servers.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

DNSControl

DNS management · by Stack Exchange

Open-source tool that keeps DNS records as code and pushes them to providers such as Cloudflare and Route 53.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

octoDNS

DNS management ·

Open-source tool for managing DNS records as code across several DNS providers at once.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

Let's Encrypt

SSL and certificates · by Internet Security Research Group

Free, automated certificate authority that issues TLS certificates through the ACME protocol.

  • Free plan or free to use

Certbot

SSL and certificates · by Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF's ACME client that gets and renews Let's Encrypt certificates and can configure Apache or NGINX.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

acme.sh

SSL and certificates ·

Shell-script ACME client that issues and renews certificates, with many DNS provider APIs for wildcard certificates.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

cert-manager

SSL and certificates ·

Kubernetes add-on that issues and renews certificates from ACME and other issuers for cluster workloads.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

ZeroSSL

SSL and certificates ·

Certificate authority offering free and paid certificates, with ACME support and a dashboard for manual issuance.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Has an API

Sectigo

SSL and certificates ·

Commercial certificate authority selling DV, OV and EV certificates, with management tools for large estates.

Caddy

SSL and certificates ·

Open-source web server that gets and renews HTTPS certificates automatically for the sites it serves.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

WHMCS

Hosting billing and automation · by WebPros

Billing, provisioning and support system used by many web hosts to sell hosting, domains and servers.

  • Runs on your own server
  • Has an API

FOSSBilling

Hosting billing and automation ·

Free, open-source billing and client management software for hosting businesses, forked from BoxBilling.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

Imunify360

Server security · by CloudLinux

Server security suite for Linux web hosts with a firewall, malware scanning and patching for hosting panels.

  • Runs on your own server

CrowdSec

Server security ·

Open-source security engine that reads logs, detects attacks and shares blocklists across its user community.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

Fail2ban

Server security ·

Open-source tool that scans logs for repeated failed logins and bans the offending IP addresses.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Open source
  • Runs on your own server

Patchstack

Server security ·

Vulnerability database and protection service for WordPress plugins and themes, used by hosts and agencies.

  • Built for WordPress sites

Wordfence

Server security · by Defiant

WordPress security plugin with a firewall, malware scanner and login protection.

  • Free plan or free to use
  • Built for WordPress sites

BitNinja

Server security ·

Server security service for hosting providers that combines several defense modules on each server.

  • Runs on your own server