Best self-hosted email server: Stalwart, mailcow, Mailu and Mail-in-a-Box compared
Four free self-hosted email servers compared on licence, components and requirements, with each claim sourced to the product's own site or licence file.
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Four free self-hosted email servers compared on licence, components and requirements, with each claim sourced to the product's own site or licence file.
cPanel's own plans in 2026: Solo, Admin, Pro, Premier and WP Squared, with the account limit on each, prices excluding VAT, and how to count your accounts.
Move Plesk subscriptions to Jabali Panel over SSH: discover, analyze, restore, then repoint DNS. Discovery is read-only. Debian 13 or Ubuntu 24.04.
Stalwart and mailcow compared on licence, components, install requirements and upgrade notes, with each claim sourced to the vendor's own docs or licence file.
Jabali Panel can add FireHOL levels 1-3, IPsum, Spamhaus DROP for IPv6 and up to 10 of your own lists to the CrowdSec community blocklist, enforced in nftables.
Jabali Panel adds a per-domain Block AI crawlers switch, a blocked user-agent list and per-domain rate limits on top of CrowdSec. What each layer stops.
Every domain in Jabali Panel gets a Statistics tab: requests and bandwidth for 7, 30 or 90 days, plus visitors by country, counted from the nginx access logs.
CyberPanel's OpenLiteSpeed lock-in and CloudPanel's web-only scope mean growth eventually hurts. Jabali Panel is an AGPL panel with SSH-pull migration pipelines for CyberPanel (reads its MySQL config DB) and CloudPanel (reads its SQLite DB). Debian 13 or Ubuntu 24.04.
Plesk licences add up fast. Jabali Panel is an AGPL hosting panel that pulls Plesk subscriptions over SSH. Debian 13 or Ubuntu 24.04. Free, no per-domain fees.
Every Jabali Panel install gets an automatic hostname like 192-0-2-7.jabalihosted.com with a valid Let's Encrypt certificate. No DNS setup or domain purchase.
jabali-mcp is Jabali Panel's official MCP server. Any MCP-capable AI can diagnose outages and provision domains, mail, DNS and SSL. Read-only by default.
Install Nextcloud, Immich, Vaultwarden, Grafana, Gitea, Odoo, and 37 more apps as hardened Docker Compose stacks, with automatic SSL and restic snapshots.
Jabali Sounder is the central control plane for a fleet of Jabali Panel servers: live monitoring, cross-server inventory, automation tokens. No SSH.
How to migrate a cPanel account or a full WHM server to Jabali Panel: cpmove ingest, DNS handoff, mailbox rehoming, database users and passwords, and cutover.
Provision Stalwart mailboxes, rotate DKIM keys, and monitor per-domain DMARC/MTA-STS from one open-source panel. Bulwark webmail and client autoconfig included.
Per-domain PowerDNS Authoritative + pdns-recursor split-port, DNSSEC ECDSAP256SHA256 signing per domain, MariaDB backend, and panel-side zone management.
Stalwart 0.16.24 SMTP + IMAP + JMAP in one binary, with per-domain DKIM, MTA-STS, Bulwark webmail, and auto-configured Apple / Thunderbird / Outlook clients.
AGPL-3.0 open-source hosting control panel for Debian 13 (Trixie). Built in Go + React, manages nginx, PHP-FPM, PowerDNS, Stalwart Mail, and SSL.
How Jabali Panel uses nginx, Let's Encrypt, and CrowdSec AppSec to front per-user PHP-FPM pools, panel APIs, and webmail — declaratively, on Debian 13.
Manage WordPress sites with WP-CLI installs, single-use wp-admin SSO links, per-install auto-updates, and CrowdSec WAF — on a self-hosted Debian 13 panel.
cPanel-style hosting on Debian 13 or Ubuntu 24.04: free, AGPL, no per-domain pricing. Domains, PHP-FPM, email, DNS, WordPress and SSL. Imports cpmove archives.
Eight free hosting control panels compared on licence, supported Linux versions and cost, with a dated table and one source per cell.