Self-hosted cPanel & WHM alternative · v5.38

The hosting control panel that doesn’t charge per account.

Sites, email, authoritative DNS with your own private nameservers, free SSL, databases, Node, Python and Java — the full hosting stack on your own VPS, for one flat licence per server.

200 hosting accounts

on cPanel $118.99/mo
on Vanta Panel $10/mo
See the full cost breakdown cPanel list price, checked 26 Jul 2026.
$ curl -fsSL https://get.vantapanel.com | sudo bash

Fresh Ubuntu 22.04+ or Debian 12 · panel live in ~3 minutes · free for 1 site, no card

v5.38· 18 services built in· free WHMCS module· your customers’ files and mail never leave your VPS

Running 50+ accounts? See hosting-company pricing

demo.vantapanel.com/vwhm
Vanta Panel vWHM admin dashboard showing server information, health metrics and account tools, captured live from the demo
A real screenshot, not a mockup — captured live from demo.vantapanel.com.
What the cheap panels leave out

A panel you can actually sell hosting on

The newer flat-price panels are deploy tools. They put a site on a server, and stop. No mail server, no authoritative DNS, and nothing for your customer to log into — so you cannot sell shared hosting on them. Vanta Panel ships all three.

A real mail server

Not a relay you rent. Mailboxes, forwarders, autoresponders, filters and webmail on your own box, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC set up for every domain you add.

Authoritative DNS & private nameservers

Point ns1 and ns2 at your own VPS and every new account gets its zone created automatically. A full record editor comes with it. No Cloudflare account required.

A panel your customers log into

vWHM is your control room, vPanel is theirs. Customers manage their own domains, email, databases, files and backups, so support tickets never reach you.

cPanel list price, checked 26 Jul 2026. “Deploy tools” means the flat-price server panels such as CloudPanel and RunCloud. Full cPanel comparison
What you need to sell hosting Vanta Panel cPanel & WHM Deploy tools
Mail server, webmail and deliverabilityBuilt inBuilt inNot included
Authoritative DNS with a zone editorBuilt inBuilt inNot included
Private nameservers (ns1/ns2 on your VPS)Built inBuilt inNot included
Customer-facing control panelBuilt inBuilt inNot included
Cost of 200 hosting accounts$10/mo$118.99/mo
Charged per hosting accountNeverYes, above 100No
One install, nothing to bolt on

18 services built in

All of it configured by the installer, all of it managed from vWHM and vPanel. There is no add-on marketplace, because there is nothing missing.

  • Hosting accountsisolated Linux user + quota
  • Domains & subdomainsaddon, parked, redirects
  • Email & webmailmailboxes, forwarders, filters
  • Authoritative DNSfull zone editor
  • Private nameserversns1/ns2 on your own VPS
  • Free SSLLet's Encrypt, auto-renewed
  • MySQL databaseswith phpMyAdmin built in
  • File manageredit, upload, zip, extract
  • Backupsscheduled and on demand
  • Cron jobspresets, MAILTO, run now
  • Git deploysclone, pull, deploy
  • Node.js appsmanaged and reverse-proxied
  • Python appsmanaged venv as a service
  • Java appsrun a .jar as a service
  • Apache Kafkaper-account SCRAM + ACLs
  • Rediscaching and queues
  • SSH & terminalper-account, toggleable
  • Security suite2FA, IP blocker, hotlink

Every feature in detail

Real screenshots, not mockups

See the actual panel

Every image below is a live capture from the demo. Open it yourself and click around — vWHM signs in with demo / demo, vPanel with acme / demo.

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vWHM Create Account screen, provisioning a Linux user, vhost, DNS zone and panel login in one step
Create an account
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vPanel Email Accounts screen listing mailboxes with quotas, forwarders and webmail access
A real mail server
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vWHM automatic DNS screen showing private nameserver setup and per-account zone creation
Your own nameservers

Open live demo

From bare VPS to hosting

Three minutes, three steps

Step 01

Run one command

Paste it into an SSH session on a fresh box. The installer sets up the web server, mail, DNS, MySQL, the runtimes and both panels.

Step 02

Point your domain

Set your private nameservers in Server Setup and add your domain. Free SSL is issued automatically, and every new site gets HTTPS.

Step 03

Create accounts

Open accounts in vWHM, or let WHMCS do it for you with the free module. Customers self-serve everything else in vPanel.

$ curl -fsSL https://get.vantapanel.com | sudo bash

Fresh Ubuntu 22.04+ or Debian 12 · panel live in ~3 minutes · free for 1 site, no card · read the install guide

Questions

Good to know

How much does Vanta Panel cost?
Free for one hosting account, one mailbox and one database — no card. Beyond that it is $10 per server per month for unlimited hosting accounts, unlimited email and unlimited databases. A licence is bound to one server, so you pay per server and never per account.
Is this really cheaper than cPanel?
Yes, and the gap widens as you grow, because cPanel prices by account and Vanta Panel does not. At 200 accounts cPanel list price is $118.99 per month against $10 for Vanta Panel — $1,427.88 a year against $120. cPanel list price, checked 26 Jul 2026.
What do I need to install it?
A fresh VPS running Ubuntu 22.04 or newer, or Debian 12, and root access. One command installs both panels and the whole stack, and you are live in about three minutes.
How is this different from CloudPanel or RunCloud?
Those are deploy tools: they put a site on a server. They do not run a mail server, they are not authoritative for your DNS, and they give your customer nothing to log into. Vanta Panel ships all three, which is what you need to actually sell shared hosting.
Can I move my accounts off cPanel?
Yes. vWHM includes an Import from cPanel tool that recreates an account — its Linux user, home directory, domains, databases and mailboxes — so you do not start from scratch.
Can I resell it through WHMCS?
Yes. The WHMCS provisioning module is free and included. It creates, suspends, terminates and re-plans accounts straight from your WHMCS billing.

$10 per server. Unlimited accounts. Never per account.

Start free on one site, and pay the same $10 whether you run ten accounts or a thousand.

$ curl -fsSL https://get.vantapanel.com | sudo bash