Meet CentOS Web Panel – a free web hosting control panel.

CentOS Web Panel (CWP) can help you to install LAMP or LEMP stack easily. It’s a free solution and works on CentOS.

If you are looking to host CMS like WordPress, Joomla, etc, or a PHP-based application where you need a web server, database, emails, monitoring, and security then you have two options.

• You get the Cloud VM and install every software manually. This can be time-consuming and you need a little bit of sysadmin skills.
• The easy way – you get the Cloud VM and install CWP. And, then you install the required software through a GUI. It will take a lot less time than doing it manually.

CWP lets you install more than 50 software/components and some of the popular ones are as below.

• Web Stack – Apache, Nginx, Varnish
• App Stack – PHP-FPM, MySQL, PostgreSQL, phpMyAdmin
• Security – TLS certificates, CSF firewall, Mod Security with OWASP rules
• DNS & Email – DNS server, MailBoxes, AntiSpam, Postfix
• Monitoring – server metrics like CPU, File System, Memory
• File manager
• Crontab

Overall it looks promising to host PHP-based applications. Let’s install CWP to see how it looks like.

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