Centos Web Panel: The Free cPanel Alternative

Thinking of a Free cPanel Alternative? CentOS Web Panel (CWP) is here!

The new cPanel pricing and licensing structure announced last year has caused plenty of dislike among web hosting companies and individual user’s alike.

cPanel web hosting control panel no longer offers unlimited accounts. Instead, they introduced a multi-tier licensing structure.

Due to this many users have searched for Cpanel alternatives, and switched their control panel.

However, before you decide on a control panel, few things need to be considered;

• Quality
• Amount of support available,
• And age being the most important of all

In light of these three conditions, cPanel is quite a good control panel. It’s stable, provides support and there are large communities from which you can get support. Most of the hosting providers use cPanel and hence, cPanel community is larger than any other. So, whenever you need help, the cPanel community can come to your rescue.

There are a bunch of free cPanel alternatives available in the market, yet none of them offers complete features. Check your requirements and be smart while choosing any cPanel alternatives. Centos web panel is one of them, As a web hosting provider, we have witnessed their user base grow during the recent past. So we decided to explore it and showcase its features and benefits to our customers.

Why CWP?

CWP is a free open source web panel designed to help you quickly and easily manage both dedicated and VPS servers. It’s incredibly feature-rich and offers a variety of modules to help customize your setup.

Highlights of the core features of CWP

1. System management, including service and hardware status, network configuration, and a backup manager
2. MySQL database management, and live monitoring
3. Easy user management, permissions, and monitoring
4. FTP and file manager access
5. DNS manager
6. Email management including RoundCube access, and built-in anti-spam and antivirus
7. Shell access manager
8. Built-in firewall
9. SSL certificate creation and management

Further, you will find all feature lists on the following URL.

http://centos-webpanel.com/features

If you’re looking to extend the functionality of your control panel even further, then you can use the Softaculous auto-installer. Plus, if you’re switching from cPanel to CentOS, there’s a migration tool that will help restore your MySQL databases, users, and website files.

Server Requirements

Hardware Requirements

• 32 bit operating systems require a minimum of 512 MB RAM (not recommended)
• 64 bit operating systems require a minimum of 1024 MB RAM (recommended)
• Recommended System: 4 GB+ RAM so you would have the full functionality such as Anti-virus scan of emails.

Software Requirements

You must have a clean/fresh installation of supported operating systems:

• CentOS 6, RedHat 6 or CloudLinux 6, MINIMAL installation and English version only!
• CentOS 7 is also supported, we recommend a minimal version.
• CentOS 8 is NOT supported yet.

With Minimum system requirements of 1 GB for a 64bit system, CWP is a highly performant system that is lenient on system resources, thus being an effective solution for server administration.

Detailed Installation guide can be found on the following URL

Security

Both control panels have their own security measures.

This does not mean both control panels are heavily focused on security and that no further steps need to be taken to harden the server configuration.

The point is you will have to build security measures, whether it is cPanel or CWP.

Read the instructions on how to secure the CWP server.

Support

They do not offer any free support for their control panel, however, if you need their managed support, it can be availed.

CentOS Web Panel – Support Services

Demo

Experience the root/admin Panel as well as user end interface by browsing the demo URL.