Server control panels

Panels that sit on your own VPS and expose a web UI for the things you would otherwise do over SSH: deploying apps, managing databases and mail, issuing certificates and watching resource usage. They cover the ground between paid classics like cPanel or Plesk and container-only tools such as Portainer.

ServerKit

ServerKit is a control panel for VPS and dedicated servers, open source under MIT. Backend is Python 3.11 with Flask and SQLAlchemy, frontend React with Vite, storing state in SQLite or PostgreSQL and served through Nginx and Gunicorn.

curl -fsSL https://serverkit.ai/install.sh | sudo bash

Deploys PHP, Python, Node.js and Docker applications, with 60+ one-click templates including WordPress and Nextcloud
Mail hosting on Postfix and Dovecot with webmail, plus MySQL and PostgreSQL management
Security layer with WAF, Fail2ban, ClamAV scanning and SSO
Real-time dashboards over WebSocket; Cloudflare integration for zones, Workers and Tunnels
Provisions new servers at DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr and Linode, with backup policies
Built-in AI assistant that can run tools against your infrastructure

Multi-server setups use a Go agent for Linux, Windows and macOS that connects back to the panel over WebSocket with HMAC-SHA256 authentication, offering fleet inventory, an approval queue, staged version rollouts and pairing by short code with fingerprint verification.

Runs on Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+, Fedora and RHEL/Rocky/AlmaLinux 9+, on x86_64 or ARM64, from 1 vCPU and 1 GB RAM up.