Best Self-hosted Self-Hosting Platforms & Control Panels tools in 2026

Self-hosted, UI-focused tool to manage servers over SSH with Ansible playbooks, Docker container visibility, automations, and Prometheus-backed metrics.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+10

Deployrr automates homelab setup and app deployment using Docker and Docker Compose, with pre-configured stacks, Traefik reverse proxy options, and security integrations.

Actively maintained

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+19

Self-hosted web hosting control panel built around Docker containers, providing isolated per-user environments, resource limits, and integrated DNS, SSL, and management tools.

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cPanel+19

NixOS distribution of modular 'blocks' that standardize and test server services, offering backups, ZFS datasets, LDAP/SSO, monitoring, reverse proxy, and certificate management.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Cloudron+5

GUI and CLI tool to quickly create, manage, update, and back up Minecraft servers with mod/plugin support, remote access, and a built-in scripting IDE.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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AMP by CubeCoders+9

Syncloud is a self-hosted personal cloud platform that installs and manages curated applications via snaps, offering device images and a Vue-based web UI for private on-prem app hosting.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Umbrel+15

A collection of Ansible roles and CLI utilities to install, configure and maintain self-hosted network services (Nextcloud, Matrix, Jitsi, PostgreSQL, WireGuard) on Debian-based hosts.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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YunoHost+19

A modular, developer-friendly virtual tabletop that runs on Node.js/Electron, offering scenes, dynamic lighting, compendia and a rich module/system ecosystem.

Lightweight self-hosted PaaS that deploys Docker Compose projects via a web dashboard, automating stack deployment and exposing services on friendly URLs.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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Coolify Cloud+6

Responsive PHP web interface to manage and automate game servers, Teamspeak voice servers, webspace and databases with monitoring, REST API and reseller support.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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GameCP+13

Lightweight control panel to start, stop, restart and view logs for apps running in Docker, systemd, VMs or remote hosts via SSH. Configured with YAML and no database required.

MITSlowing down

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+12

Compact, single-page dashboard that displays KaraKeep bookmarks organized by lists, running entirely in your browser with SQLite WASM.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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Karakeep

Kubek is a cross-platform web control panel for hosting and managing Minecraft Java and Bedrock servers, with plugin/mod management, file manager, FTP and role-based access.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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TCAdmin+4

Dropserver is a Go-based platform for running small, sandboxed web applications (Deno app sandboxes) for personal or small-group use with per-app storage and user management.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Cloudron+12

Integrated installer and platform for home infrastructure. Provides VPN relay for NAT traversal, preconfigured email, automatic HTTPS, reverse proxy, and a web management utility.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Cloudron+19

WAGMIOS is a self-hosted container management system that provides a Docker marketplace, admin UI, and an AI assistant (W.I.L.L.O.W) for workflow automation and container operations.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Portainer Business Edition (Portainer Cloud)+17

A small Debian-based server system for self-hosting email, chat, VoIP, wikis, blogs, social networks and other community services on modest hardware.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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YunoHost+5

Cloudron is a self-hosted platform for deploying and managing web apps with one-click installs, automatic updates, backups, and integrated HTTPS, email, and user management.

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Cloudron+19

Open-source web control panel to create, run and manage Java and Bedrock Minecraft servers with file management, backups, user controls and Docker support.

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Pterodactyl Panel (Cloud)+4

Self-hosted control panel to deploy, manage, and monitor Docker-based apps with domains, SSL, environment variables, and one-click services.

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Coolify Cloud+15

FreedomBox is a personal server platform that makes it easy to install and manage privacy-respecting apps at home, including chat, VPN, file sync, web hosting, and backups.

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Cloudron+19

HomelabOS is an Ansible and Docker-based app platform to deploy, update, back up, and run 100+ self-hosted services with a simple “app store” experience.

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Cloudron+18

Automated web app installer and updater integrated with hosting control panels, providing one-click installs, updates, backups, and cloning for popular PHP apps.

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Softaculous+1

Open-source self-hosting and server management platform built on Kubernetes (k3s/RKE2) with an app store, strong app isolation, storage controls, and built-in HTTPS.

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Cloudron+15

Stackspin is an open source platform that bundles common team collaboration apps with single sign-on, centralized user management, backups, and monitoring for admins.

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Google Workspace+19

WikiSuite is an integrated open source suite combining wiki/groupware, chat and conferencing, webmail, search, and infrastructure management for organizations.

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Atlassian Confluence+19