Hestia Control Panel

Disclaimer

Hestia Control Panel is in active development and has been made available as a pre-release beta.
Please use caution if you choose to use this software in a production environment.

What is Hestia Control Panel?

• HestiaCP is a fork of VestaCP.
• Main purpose of HestiaCP is to be more secure, better optimized and up to date.
• An open source web server control panel with an easy-to-use interface.
• A lightweight alternative to cPanel, Plesk, etc.

What roles does Hestia Control Panel support?

• Web (Apache/NGINX) with PHP
• DNS (BIND)
• Mail (Dovecot/Exim) with virus and spam filtering (via ClamAV/SpamAssassin respectively)
• SQL (MariaDB or PostgreSQL)

System Requirements

• Debian 8 or 9
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• NOTE: Hestia Control Panel must be installed on a clean operating system to ensure proper functionality.

How to install

Connect to your server as root via SSH

ssh root@your.server

Download the installation script:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/master/install/hst-install.sh

Then run it:

bash hst-install.sh

To perform an unattended installation with the default options:

bash hst-install-ubuntu.sh -f -y no -e <email> -p <password> -s <hostname>

For additional installation options:

bash hst-install.sh -h

License

HestiaCP is licensed under GPL v3 license.

Donations

Hestia Control Panel is open source and completely free for all to use and enjoy!
If you would like to make a donation to help cover development and infrastructure costs, you may do so via PayPal: