Best Free and Open Source Software
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11 Best Free and Open Source Web Hosting Control Panels - LinuxLinks
Two of the most popular control panels are Plesk and cPanel. These are web-based graphical control panels that allow you to easily and intuitively administer websites, DNS, e-mail accounts, SSL certificates and databases. However, they are both proprietary software. Hosting providers will charge a monthly fee for these control panels to be installed on a server. Fortunately, there is a wide range of open source software available to download at no cost that offers a real alternative to these proprietary solutions.
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 11 high quality web hosting control panels tools that let users take full control of a web hosting account. The ratings chart below captures our recommendations.
ECT - fast and effective C++ file optimizer - LinuxLinks
Efficient Compression Tool (or ECT) is a C++ file optimizer.
It supports PNG, JPEG, GZIP and ZIP files.
This is free and open source software.
Alternatives to popular CLI tools: curl - LinuxLinks
The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI) unless otherwise stated.
Topgrade - system specific update tool - LinuxLinks
Keeping your system up to date usually involves invoking multiple package managers. This results in big, non-portable shell one-liners saved in your shell. To remedy this, Topgrade detects which tools you use and runs the appropriate commands to update them.
This is free and open source software.
Sentora - web hosting control panel - LinuxLinks
Sentora is a complete open-source web hosting control panel built specifically to work on a variety of Linux distributions.
Sentora is designed to be installed on a minimal OS with no webserver packages pre-installed.
This is free and open source software.
vim-fern - asynchronous tree viewer - LinuxLinks
vim-fern is a general purpose asynchronous tree viewer.
This is free and open source software.