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Virtualmin

Open source web hosting control panel for Linux and BSD systems

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Virtualmin is a web hosting control panel for Linux, built on Webmin, that manages websites, WordPress, containers, mail, databases, DNS, SSL certificates, users, and backups from a single interface. It runs on the user's own infrastructure and uses the operating system's standard packages rather than its own stack, which keeps servers lean and eases migration from other panels.

It supports Apache or Nginx, multiple PHP versions, local or external DNS (including Cloudflare, Google Cloud DNS, and Amazon Route 5al), automated SSL via Let's Encrypt, a mail stack with spam and antivirus protection, database import/export, reseller and domain-owner delegation, two-factor authentication, log handling, service monitoring, and cloud backups to Dropbox, Google Drive, and Amazon S3. It offers a browser-based terminal, FirewallD and Fail2ban integration, one-click installs for applications such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, and a modular, scriptable architecture with command line access. Virtualmin Pro adds a Podman plugin for Docker-compatible containers, WP Workbench for WordPress management, and a CLI and authenticated remote HTTP API.

Virtualmin is aimed at developers, IT teams, agencies, hosting providers, and system administrators. It is available as a free GPL edition and a paid Virtualmin Pro edition; an automated installer supports Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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