Hestia Control Panel is designed to provide administrators an easy to use web and command line interface, enabling them to quickly deploy and manage web domains, mail accounts, DNS zones, and databases from one central dashboard without the hassle of manually deploying and configuring individual components or services.
Hestia only runs on AMD64 / x86_64 and ARM64 / aarch64 processors. It also requires a 64bit operating system. It does not support i386 or ARM7-based processors.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Apache2 and NGINX with PHP-FPM.
- Multiple PHP versions (5.6 – 8.2, 8.1 as default).
- DNS Server (Bind) with clustering capabilities.
- POP/IMAP/SMTP mail services with Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, and Webmail (ClamAV, SpamAssassin, Sieve, Roundcube).
- MariaDB/MySQL and/or PostgreSQL databases.
- Let’s Encrypt SSL support with wildcard certificates.
- Firewall with brute-force attack detection and IP lists (iptables, fail2ban, and ipset).
Website: www.aapanel.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Hestia Control Panel
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Hestia Control Panel is written in Shell and PHP. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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