Not a wall of checkboxes. Below is a walk through the real HostPane interface, one capability at a time — the dashboards, editors and consoles your operators, resellers and customers actually use.
The operator's control room: live CPU, memory, disk and network, a subsystem-health grid, and alerts that fire the moment a threshold is crossed — with a watchdog that can bring a stuck service back on its own.
Create, suspend, modify or terminate accounts in a click. Real disk and bandwidth usage sit right on the row, packages fill the quotas, and "log in to account" drops you into the customer view to help.
Point DNS at the box and HostPane issues a real certificate automatically, no button to press. Pick a PHP version per site, add subdomains, aliases and redirects, and switch on the web application firewall. Sites run on NGINX — or on Apache, when your customers' applications expect .htaccess.
Mailboxes, forwarders, autoresponders and Sieve filters, with the deliverability work done for you: DKIM, SPF and DMARC in place, and your choice of spam engine — SpamAssassin or Rspamd, with a live dashboard. Spam settings go down to the single mailbox, and a domain whose mail lives elsewhere can say so.
Every new domain gets its zone created for you. Edit records in a clean table, run on BIND or PowerDNS — the operator's choice — and turn on DNSSEC to sign the zone and hand you the DS records to publish. Give an account a dedicated IPv6 address and its AAAA records follow.
MariaDB and PostgreSQL run side by side. Customers create databases and users themselves — or with a three-step wizard — reach them from a familiar web admin, and install WordPress, Joomla, MediaWiki, phpBB or Nextcloud onto an empty site in one click.
Scheduled, deduplicated, encrypted backups to local and remote storage. Every run is tracked, and restoring any point in time is a click — with a dashboard that shows you it's working before you need it.
Run commands in an in-browser terminal, audited before they execute. Under it all, the panel itself never runs as root — a separate helper does the privileged work and validates every request.
HostPane adopts a server that is already hosting customers — cPanel, DirectAdmin, CWP or Plesk — in place. It reads the running panel, stages everything beside it, and rehearses the whole switch before you book a window. No customer data moves; sites and mail stay where they are.
Offer 7.4 through 8.5 side by side and let every site pick its own. Adding a runtime used to mean an SSH session and the right package name for the distribution; now it is one click, and the panel tells you how many sites are on each version before you retire one.
Point the panel at an app folder and a startup file, pick a URL path, and HostPane runs it as a service under the customer's own user, proxies the path to it and restarts it if it falls over. Dependencies install from the same page — npm install or a virtualenv with pip.
Give a plan a CPU percentage, a memory ceiling and a process limit, and every account on it runs inside its own systemd slice — its PHP, its SSH sessions, its cron jobs and its apps. No kernel add-on to buy. Customers see their own usage against those limits, and each of their websites gets a security grade with the fix for every finding.
.git and .env files, PHP in uploads, outdated WordPress and PHPHostPane speaks the Model Context Protocol, so an AI agent can create accounts, add domains and mailboxes, or read the server forecast. Every tool that changes something accepts dry_run: the agent sees the checks, the steps in order and exactly what would be sent, and nothing changes until it asks for real. The same operations are in the REST API and the WHMCS module.
The Fleet view puts each HostPane server you run in one table, refreshed every minute, using read-only tokens that cannot change anything on the server they watch. On each server, "Looking ahead" reads the metrics history and tells you which disk is filling and how many days are left, before a threshold alert ever fires.
See and end long-running connections on MariaDB and PostgreSQL, tune the server through one validated settings file, and upgrade the engine with a full backup taken first and every step reported. The map tool adopts databases that were created outside the panel, and customer MariaDB databases can live on a separate database server.
The panel you log into never runs as root. It hands privileged work to a separate root helper over a local socket that only accepts a fixed set of validated commands — so a slip in the web layer can't reach into the system.
Everything in the box, wired together and monitored. Filter to the category you care about.
Install the bundle on a supported Linux server, sign in as root, and let the panel install and configure the hosting stack step by step.
Unpack the release and run its installer. It needs no compiler and no internet access, sets up the unprivileged web service and the root helper, and starts nothing public.
Sign in as root with the server's own password, then let Install server add the web, mail and DNS stack — each step checked, resumable if interrupted. Set the hostname and nameservers in Basic setup.
Create a package, add a hosting account and a domain — DNS zone, vhost and automatic HTTPS are all provisioned for you.
Run a whole hosting business from one server — accounts, mail, DNS and backups — without stitching tools together or paying per feature.
White-label the panel, hand clients delegated accounts with hard limits, and keep your branding on every screen they see.
Give developers self-service websites, databases and mail on infrastructure you own — with the audit trail and isolation you need.
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