Server Control Panels
14 providers in this category.
Server control panels, a kind of cloud cPanel, provision and operate servers on top of your own provider account, installing the stack and handling backups, staging, and scaling for you. They suit agencies and teams that want a tuned application stack without running their own DevOps, while keeping their own cloud bill. The separators are which clouds they manage, the entry price, and what is included.
Companies
Neutral ordering. Not a recommendation.
CapRover
caprover.com
CapRover is a free, open-source, self-hosted PaaS and web-server manager you install on your own server to deploy apps in any language (Node.js, PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, .NET) plus databases like MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Cleavr
cleavr.io
Cleavr is a bring-your-own-server management and deployment control panel for PHP and Node.js applications on your own VPS from any cloud.
Cloudways
www.cloudways.com
Cloudways is a managed cloud hosting platform that provisions and operates servers on DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, AWS, Linode, and Vultr from one control panel.
Coolify
coolify.io
Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable platform-as-a-service for deploying applications, databases, and services on your own servers.
cPanel
www.cpanel.net
cPanel, paired with its WHM server administration layer, is the incumbent web-hosting control panel: a web UI for managing sites, email, DNS, databases, and PHP on any Linux server you bring.
Dokku
dokku.com
Dokku is an open-source, single-server platform-as-a-service: a git push deploys applications to your own Linux box using Heroku buildpacks or Dockerfiles, with plugins for databases, TLS, and domains.
GridPane
gridpane.com
GridPane is a self-managed WordPress hosting control panel that provisions and manages servers on providers like DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, Amazon Lightsail, and UpCloud.
Laravel Forge
forge.laravel.com
Laravel Forge is a server management and deployment service for PHP and Laravel applications that provisions servers on providers such as DigitalOcean, AWS, Hetzner, Vultr, and Linode.
Plesk
www.plesk.com
Plesk is the other classic web-hosting control panel, managing sites, mail, DNS, and databases on both Linux and Windows servers, which remains its key differentiator from cPanel.
Ploi
ploi.io
Ploi is a server management and deployment tool that provisions and manages servers across providers such as DigitalOcean, AWS, Linode, Vultr, Hetzner, UpCloud, and Scaleway.
RunCloud
runcloud.io
RunCloud is a server management control panel for PHP and WordPress applications that provisions and manages servers on providers like DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, Linode, Vultr, UpCloud, and Hetzner.
ServerPilot
serverpilot.io
ServerPilot is a cloud server management service that configures and manages PHP and WordPress hosting on your own VPS from providers like DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, and UpCloud.
