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I've installed and used both cPanel and Plesk on my dedicated servers in the past and I truly enjoyed the features and simplicity of cPanel (specially the auto-update feature in WHM), recently (a couple of months ago) I also tried a beta version of the open-source OpenPanel and although it looks really nice I found it kinda limited in terms of features, such as automatic system updates, automatic backups and the ability to add addicional hosts to the MySQL allowed clients list - just to name a few.

OpenPanel http://www.openpanel.com/images/screenshot1_thumb.png

Besides OpenPanel, I'm aware of Usermin, Webmin, Virtualmin, ISPConfig, VHCS, web-cp and FlexCP - although I've never had the opportunity to try any of them before... Are you familiar and recommend any of these?

It's been a while since I managed a dedicated server and I'm wondering what would be a good hosting control panel for me, preferably a free / open-source one that has similar features / usability of cPanel.

I appreciate all input, thanks! =)

HopelessN00b
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Alix Axel
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Here is a useful link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_hosting_control_panels

ptman
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You could also look at DirectAdmin.

p858snake
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Check out: http://www.isp-control.net/

Not bad, and development isn't stale!

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Not tried myself, and avaliable as debian/ubuntu packages, dtc:

http://www.gplhost.com/software-dtc.html

Baifox is another option, not as complete as plesk/cpanel:

http://www.baifox.org/

sntg
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