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Server management is an odd category. Most providers in this section sell no hosting at all. The product is a software layer to provision web servers. Server management also matches nearly all records in bring your own infrastructure. The account at the hosting provider stays with the customer and the panel connects to it. The bill will mostly have two parts, a subscription plus server costs. An entry price band in this category prices the panel alone. Responsibility splits too: The operating system stays with the customer with a panel to make it manageable, which is why “you, with panel” is the usual answer to who manages the operating system here. A panel automates the routine and can patch unattended. There are the classic control panels, like cPanel and Plesk that are licensed per server and are often used with shared hosting. Then there are developer-facing provisioners like Laravel Forge, Ploi, RunCloud and Coolify with a feature set that is closed to PaaS. A few resell the infrastructure as well and return one bill, which makes them hard to tell from a PaaS from outside.

25 providers are server management, listed alphabetically. Commonest entry price $5 to $15 a month.

A

  • ApisCP

    Self-hosted hosting platform and control panel from Apis Networks, licensed per server and aimed at providers running their own fleet.

C

  • Cleavr

    Server provisioning and deployment service for PHP and Node applications, driving servers rented from major clouds or any VPS the customer brings.

  • Cloud 66

    DevOps platform deploying containerised and native applications and static sites onto servers the customer owns on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.

  • CloudPanel

    Free, open source server control panel for PHP, Node.js and Python applications.

  • Cloudron

    Self-hosting platform that installs and keeps open-source applications updated on the customer's own server, with per-app backups and single sign-on.

  • Cloudways

    Cloudways provisions and manages servers on other people's infrastructure — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS and Google Cloud — through its own control panel.

  • Coolify

    Open-source self-hostable PaaS installed as a control panel on servers the operator rents, with a paid cloud-hosted panel as the alternative.

  • cPanel

    Hosting control panel installed on a server the operator supplies, licensed per server and priced by the number of accounts it manages.

  • CyberPanel

    Open source server control panel built on OpenLiteSpeed for PHP and WordPress hosting.

D

  • DirectAdmin

    Web hosting control panel installed on a server you supply, licensed per server with per-account pricing options.

  • Dokploy

    Open-source deployment platform billed per managed server, run either as a hosted service or installed on the customer's own machines.

E

  • Easypanel

    Easypanel is a server panel that turns a rented Linux box into a container platform, licensed per server rather than per application.

  • Elestio

    Elestio is managed hosting for open-source software on dedicated virtual machines, provisioned into a third-party cloud or into the customer's own account.

  • Encore Cloud

    Encore Cloud is a backend framework for TypeScript and Go with a control plane that provisions the infrastructure it infers from the code into the customer's own AWS or GCP account.

G

  • GridPane

    GridPane is a WordPress server-management platform for agencies, provisioning and hardening servers on the customer's own cloud account.

H

  • Hatchbox

    Hatchbox is a deployment platform for Rails, Ruby and Node applications on servers the customer rents, billed per managed server rather than per application.

  • Hestia Control Panel

    Open source control panel for managing web servers, email, DNS and databases.

L

  • Laravel Forge

    Laravel Forge is server-management software — it provisions and configures servers, either on a VPS you bring yourself or on its own Laravel VPS product.

P

  • Plesk

    Hosting control panel licensed per server, managing sites, domains, mail, databases and WordPress on Linux and Windows machines the customer supplies.

  • Ploi

    Dutch server-management panel that provisions and maintains PHP application servers on VPS accounts the customer rents elsewhere.

  • Porter

    Management layer that deploys applications from GitHub into the customer's own AWS, Azure or GCP account and runs them on Kubernetes underneath.

R

  • RunCloud

    RunCloud is a server management control panel for PHP and WordPress stacks, installed as an agent on a VPS the customer brings.

S

  • ServerPilot

    ServerPilot installs and maintains a PHP stack on an Ubuntu server the customer brings, billed per server and per application.

  • SpinupWP

    SpinupWP is a control panel that configures and manages a WordPress-tuned server stack on an Ubuntu machine the customer brings.

X

  • xCloud

    xCloud is a server-management panel launched in 2023 by WPDeveloper. It manages servers a customer brings, and also sells managed servers of its own.