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So how many of you are using VestaCP? Since I'm with VPS5 and not using Windows (Already have a paid vps for that) thought it's better start running a web server so I can move some of my sites from other server. Now, my favorite panel is VirtualMin because once it's installed and configured I haven't ran into any trouble. But the whole installing process it bit complicated and not so easy. Plus names given for common panel features are totally difference from what you see in other panels.

Now vps panel of this server has the auto installation feature for number of panels. Apart from some paid panels there are other free options like VestaCP, CentOS Web Panel, ISPConfig3, Webmin etc. I have tested all of these in past and I think VestaCP is the best one among this lot. I had few bad experience with VestaCP but that was very long time ago so I think this panel should be lot better than it was years ago.

So my question for VestaCP users is what do you like and dislike about this free hosting panel from your experience ? How is the support ? It was bad last time I used it but it was long time ago.

While VestaCP is quite a decent panel, I’m not a very big fan of it. It seems to be “all over the place” and quite glitchy. And its mobile optimization is simply nonexistent... you can barely use it in mobile. I’ve even had issues with things getting blocked by other things when using it on a PC, which means that it also isn’t all that good when used in PCs as well. Some people (although myself not included) have faced several issues with its dns system.

I personally recommend Cyberpanel, it’s free (don’t look at the plans in their website, those are for litespeed enterprise, just make sure to choose OpenLiteSpeed in the installation prompt), and also extremely easy to install. You literally just need to run a single command as root, answer a few very basic questions (most of which you’ll leave as default anyway) and let the installation script do all the work for you.

It’s extremely feature packed and works really well on mobile.

Do note that if you choose to go with Cyberpanel, they highly recommend that you go with a fresh OS install to avoid any issues.