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What is HestiaCP?

HestiaCP (Hestia Control Panel) is a free, open-source hosting panel licensed under GPLv3. It started as a fork of VestaCP and is now actively maintained, while VestaCP itself has been largely abandoned. If you still run VestaCP, Hestia is the natural place to move to.

Main features

• Web: Nginx, optionally with Apache behind it, and multiple PHP-FPM versions per site.
  
• Mail: Exim and Dovecot, with webmail, SPF/DKIM support and spam filtering.
  
• DNS: BIND, so the server can host your zones (and act as a DNS cluster).
  
• Free SSL with Let's Encrypt for sites, mail and the panel.
  
• Users and packages for hosting clients, plus backups and a file manager.
  
• A full command-line toolkit: every panel action has a matching v-* command.
  

Good to know

• Default panel port is 8083: https://your-server:8083
  
• Supported on Debian and Ubuntu. Install on a clean server.
  
• Templates for Nginx and PHP-FPM live in /usr/local/hestia/data/templates/ and can be customised per site.
  

HestiaCP is a solid choice if you want a lightweight, open-source panel with mail and DNS included and a strong CLI.