Vanta Panel
Hosting you
actually own.
Vanta Panel exists for developers and small hosts who want the convenience of a control panel without giving up control of their servers or their data. We are new, so instead of asking you to take our word for anything, this page lists what you can go and check.
The idea
Traditional control panels are powerful, but they lock you into per-account licensing and a fixed view of what a server should run. We wanted something different: a single panel you install on your own VPS, that covers the everyday hosting workflow and keeps pace with how applications are actually built today.
That is also the whole pricing model. $10 per server, per month. Unlimited accounts. Never per account. The number stops moving as you grow, because the thing we count is servers, and you already know how many of those you have.
What it does
Vanta Panel ships as two faces of the same install. vWHM is the admin control room for provisioning accounts and setting limits. vPanel is the clean dashboard each account logs into to manage domains, email, databases, files, SSL and more.
Beyond the basics it manages Java apps as services, runs a shared Apache Kafka broker with per-account isolation, and includes Redis — runtimes most panels simply don’t offer. It is plain, fast and dependency-light by design, with two-factor authentication, isolated accounts, per-account ACLs for streaming, and automatic HTTPS on every site.
Six things you can check without asking us
We have no scale to point at, so this is the substitute: public artefacts, open right now, in another tab, before you spend anything.
Every release is published, dated and checksummed
The same update.json the panel's own updater polls is a public URL. It carries the version, the release date, the SHA-256 of the package and a plain-English note about what changed. Nothing ships to customers that is not in it.
A live demo, not a video tour
A real Vanta Panel install with real data. Click into vWHM and vPanel, break things, look at the screens you would actually use every day. No signup, no sales call, no scheduling link.
Open the live demoThe free tier is the identical build
Not a trial, not a cut-down edition, not a countdown. The paid licence lifts three counts — hosting accounts, mailboxes, databases — and changes nothing else. You can evaluate the whole product before you pay anything.
See what the tiers changeThe documentation is complete and public
74 documentation pages and 9 articles, including the full cPanel migration runbook, are readable without an account. If a step is ugly, you find that out before you buy, not after.
Read the documentationThe installer is one public command
No sales gate in front of the download, no licence key required to install. You can read the install script before you run it, on a machine you control, and see exactly what it touches.
See the install guideThe installer and docs are on GitHub
The public repository carries the one-line installer and the documentation. Issues there are visible to everyone, including the ones we have not fixed yet.
View the repositoryEmail fixes. If you use a filter to forward mail to another address, it no longer silently discards your local copy — a forward that the receiving provider rejects used to be lost for good. Enabling DKIM signing now actually works: a bad directive in the generated OpenDKIM config stopped the signer from starting at all, so mail left unsigned, and this update repairs configs already broken that way. Auto-created SPF records now name your server's IP explicitly, and a DMARC record is published alongside them.
SHA-256 2f5c29e16341c0e7efcb771c62c49ec79e2c5230f5c7ca956899aa21e33c3d4a
Pulled live from the manifest, so this block cannot drift from what actually shipped. Your own install checks the same file — see updating Vanta Panel.
The promises that would be expensive to break
Because it is self-hosted, your customers’ files, mail and databases never leave a server you control. Here is what that actually means when things go wrong — including when we are the thing that has gone wrong.
- Nothing we run sits in front of what you hostSites are ordinary Apache vhosts. Mail is Postfix and Dovecot in standard Maildir. DNS is PowerDNS. Databases are MySQL/MariaDB. Certificates are ordinary Let's Encrypt certificates. The panel manages those services; it is not a proxy in their path, so nothing you host depends on us being reachable.
- What happens if you stop paying is written down in advanceDay 0 the panel reverts to free-tier limits and shows a renewal banner — nothing existing is deleted, ever. Day 3 automated backups pause; restoring an existing backup keeps working throughout. Day 7 your customers see a service notice. Day 14 vWHM locks to the renewal screen. Websites, mail and DNS keep serving the whole way down that ladder.
- There is no lock-in to unlockBackups are plain
.tar.gzarchives withmysqldump.sqlfiles inside — open one withtarand read it. You can rsync the server elsewhere, or point a different control panel at the same machine, without asking us for anything. We hold no encryption key and no part of your stack lives on our hardware. - If we disappeared, your servers would notThe panel is PHP source running on your own machine. There is no hosted control plane to switch off and no compiled blob. If our licensing server stopped answering tomorrow, the panel holds your paid limits through a signed grace window and then falls back to free-tier limits. The worst case is a working server that will not let you add new accounts from the UI.
What we don’t have
This is the section most vendor About pages leave out, which is exactly why it is here. If any of these is a blocker for you, better that you learn it now than in month three.
- We do not have a customer list to show you. We are a young product, and any logo wall we put here would be either borrowed or made up.
- We are not SOC 2, ISO 27001 or PCI certified, and we do not run a bug bounty or publish a formal vulnerability-disclosure policy. Security reports go to support@vantapanel.com with SECURITY in the subject and we treat them as urgent.
- We do not offer 24/7 support. We are a small team in one time zone and we aim to reply within one business day. A rota we cannot staff is worse than an honest number.
- We do not publish an uptime SLA for the licensing service, because nothing you host depends on it — see the grace window above.
- We have no star ratings, review-site scores or "trusted by N companies" figures anywhere on this site, because we have not earned any that would mean something.
What we do offer instead: a free tier that is the same build, a demo you can click through before you talk to us, documentation that includes the migration runbook in full, and a 14-day refund window on a first purchase. Put one real customer on it before you move fifty.
Install it and judge it yourself
One command on a fresh Ubuntu or Debian VPS. The free tier needs no card and no trial clock.
$ curl -fsSL https://get.vantapanel.com | sudo bashQuestions go to support@vantapanel.com and a person answers them.