many year I wasn't looking for web panel but with end of life on Cent OS 7 and very, vary bad payed support on CWP i start to research which web panel is better in 2024. and all yours experience and opinion will be helpful for me 🙂

Watching the features, support, price and ecc. i don't have many criteries i want stable web panel with good support and on normal price. The beter option for me is if it can optimize the sites (for fast loading for reason of SEO) and have no problems with SSL or E-mail.

To the question: which is the best option for 2024 and why?
Thank you in advance!

Iam using Contabo VPS, Tried to install CWP on AlmaLinux 9 and Rocky Linux 9 the result was wrong there are lot of issue after installing on both OS. In contabo there

was no option to install Centos versions. they only have these OS AlmaLinux 9, Debian 11 (64 Bit), Debian 12, Fedora 35, openSUSE Leap 15.3, Rocky Linux 9, Ubuntu 20.04 (64 Bit), Ubuntu 22.04.

If you enable Mode security the Apache will stop working another thing is there are lot of another issue in DNS and other area. If CWP is not supporting these OS please let me know a good Control

panel which assure best security and fast performance. Looking for a lowest cost and best in class

The developers built an easy script for it, you need to run the bwlo command to get the ssl installed for hostname, email server and hestia admin panel

Step 1 : 

Choose a valid Hostname i.e it should be the subdomain of your main domain example : 

server1.domain.tld
or
alphagnu.domain.tld

** ensure whatever you choose as a hostname url you should have valid A record DNS pointing to the server ip

Step 2 : 

Change the hostname :

v-change-sys-hostname server1.domain.tld

Step 3 : 

Install Lets encrypt ssl for hostname : 

v-add-letsencrypt-host

this script will add ssl to everywhere now check the admin panel : https://server1.domain.tld:8083 it should be opening with proper ssl certs.

Make sure that your server is running a supported operating system :

• Debian 10
• Debian 11
• Debian 12
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Also ARM server will also work with hestia cp. Our website alphagnu.com also uses ARM server with hestia cp.

I recommend to use debian 12 or debian 11 for stable production environment.

Homepage : https://hestiacp.com

HestiaCP Demo : https://demo.hestiacp.com:8083/

Step 1: Login as root into your server via ssh client like putty or Linux terminal

Step 2: Preparing

install deps/requirements :

apt install sudo wget curl

Download Hestiacp install script :

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/release/install/hst-install.sh

Step 3: Run below command according to your software choice :
Ensure you change this with your details in below installation flag :

Quote

 --hostname server.domain.tld --email admin@gmail.com --port 8083 --password admin_password

**here port 8083 is the admin/user gui port for hestia cp you can chnage the port too by changing the --port 8083 to your fav port number.

To install Nginx + Apache + php-fpm with multiphp, email server with clamav and spamassassin and installs mariadb server (requires 2gb ram and above):

sudo bash ./hst-install.sh --apache yes --phpfpm yes --multiphp yes --mysql yes --postgresql no --vsftpd yes --proftpd no --exim yes --dovecot yes --clamav yes --spamassassin yes --iptables yes --fail2ban yes --quota yes --api yes --hostname server.domain.tld --email admin@gmail.com --port 8083 --password admin_password --lang en 

To install Nginx + php-fpm with multiphp, email server with clamav and spamassassin and installs mariadb server (requires 2gb ram and above):

sudo bash ./hst-install.sh --apache no --phpfpm yes --multiphp yes --mysql yes --postgresql no --vsftpd yes --proftpd no --exim yes --dovecot yes --clamav yes --spamassassin yes --iptables yes --fail2ban yes --quota yes --api yes --hostname server.domain.tld --email admin@gmail.com --port 8083 --password admin_password --lang en 

To install Apache + php-fpm with multiphp, email server with clamav and spamassassin and installs mariadb server (requires 2gb ram and above):

sudo bash ./hst-install.sh --apache yes --phpfpm yes --multiphp yes --mysql yes --postgresql no --vsftpd yes --proftpd no --exim yes --dovecot yes --clamav yes --spamassassin yes --iptables yes --fail2ban yes --quota yes --api yes --hostname server.domain.tld --email admin@gmail.com --port 8083 --password admin_password --lang en 

For 1 gb ram and above, if you need only Nginx + Apache + php-fpm with multiphp and light email server without security (clamav and spamassassin) with mariadb :

sudo bash ./hst-install.sh --apache yes --phpfpm yes --multiphp yes --mysql yes --postgresql no --vsftpd yes --proftpd no --exim yes --dovecot yes --clamav no --spamassassin no --iptables yes --fail2ban yes --quota yes --api yes --hostname server.domain.tld --email admin@gmail.com --port 8083 --password admin_password --lang en 

For 1 gb ram and above, if you need only Nginx + php-fpm with multiphp and light email server without security (clamav and spamassassin) with mariadb :

sudo bash ./hst-install.sh --apache no --phpfpm yes --multiphp yes --mysql yes --postgresql no --vsftpd yes --proftpd no --exim yes --dovecot yes --clamav no --spamassassin no --iptables yes --fail2ban yes --quota yes --api yes --hostname server.domain.tld --email admin@gmail.com --port 8083 --password admin_password --lang en 

Suppose you want to install postgresql change the option “–postgresql no” to “–postgresql yes” to disable revert the option yes to no. That's it if you need installation support you can use this forum.

Step 1 :

Go to aapanel admin and select Website from left menu:

Step 2 :

Click on green button Add site :

Step 3 :

fill the form like below in my example I’m using test.mysterydata.com as site url choose FTP create and For Database select MySQL, if you want to have ssl installed click on Apply for SSL (ensure you’ve A record added and pointing to the aapanel server ip else ssl will fail to install), select preferred php version and click on submit:

You’ll be prompted with Successfully created site, save the ftp and mysql login details

After you click on submit you’ll see the site is added in the website site manager module :

Step 4 :

Installing WordPress in website :

you can upload the website file from FTP manager according to your preference but here I’ll show you how to install WordPress quickly via aaPanel terminal :

First copy the Document root of your website :

Login as root via the terminal (use user root and root password for login):

Now run this commands one by one :

***here my document root is /www/wwwroot/test.mysterydata.com replace with yours one

cd /www/wwwroot/test.mysterydata.com
rm -rf index.html
wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip
unzip latest.zip
rsync -av wordpress/ . && rm -rf wordpress latest.zip
chown -R www:www *

That’s it open your website URL and follow the onscreen instructions the DB details are already created when you addedd the website above see Step 3 or you can create the new db details from aapanel admin >> Database menu