Tag: open-source
21 posts.
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Best self-hosted email server: Stalwart, mailcow, Mailu and Mail-in-a-Box compared
By Shuki Vaknin ·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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cPanel pricing in 2026: the plans, the account limits, and what they cost
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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Migrate from Plesk to Jabali Panel over SSH, step by step
By Shuki Vaknin ·Move Plesk subscriptions to Jabali Panel over SSH: discover, analyze, restore, then repoint DNS. Discovery is read-only. Debian 13 or Ubuntu 24.04.
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Stalwart vs mailcow: two self-hosted mail servers compared
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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FireHOL, IPsum and custom IP blocklists on top of CrowdSec
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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Block AI crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot with one switch
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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Website traffic statistics by country, with no tracking script
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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CyberPanel alternative (and CloudPanel): one AGPL panel with a migration path from both
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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Free Plesk alternative: migrate off Plesk to Jabali Panel
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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Free jabalihosted.com hostname for every Jabali Panel install
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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jabali-mcp: run your hosting panel from any AI assistant
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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One-click Docker apps for self-hosting: 43 apps with SSL and backups
By Shuki Vaknin ·Install Nextcloud, Immich, Vaultwarden, Grafana, Gitea, Odoo, and 37 more apps as hardened Docker Compose stacks, with automatic SSL and restic snapshots.
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Introducing Jabali Sounder: one control plane for many Jabali Panels
By Shuki Vaknin ·Jabali Sounder is the central control plane for a fleet of Jabali Panel servers: live monitoring, cross-server inventory, automation tokens. No SSH.
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Stalwart Mail on Debian 13: run SMTP, IMAP, and JMAP from one hosting panel
By Shuki Vaknin ·Provision Stalwart mailboxes, rotate DKIM keys, and monitor per-domain DMARC/MTA-STS from one open-source panel. Bulwark webmail and client autoconfig included.
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PowerDNS DNS hosting with DNSSEC, managed by Jabali Panel
By Shuki Vaknin ·Per-domain PowerDNS Authoritative + pdns-recursor split-port, DNSSEC ECDSAP256SHA256 signing per domain, MariaDB backend, and panel-side zone management.
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Self-hosted mail server with Stalwart and Jabali Panel
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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A hosting control panel built for Debian 13
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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Reverse proxy + WAF for hosted sites on Debian 13
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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WordPress-first hosting with Jabali Panel
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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Open-source cPanel alternative for Debian 13 and Ubuntu 24.04
By Shuki Vaknin ·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.
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Open-source hosting control panels compared (2026): what to run instead of cPanel
By Shuki Vaknin ·Eight free hosting control panels compared on licence, supported Linux versions and cost, with a dated table and one source per cell.