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Reqad
Open-source, self-hosted hosting control panel
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Open-source, self-hosted hosting control panel
5 followers
Reqad is a free, open-source hosting control panel for Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux and RHEL 8/9. Migrate from cPanel/Plesk, manage email (exim/dovecot/Roundcube/SpamAssassin), WordPress, multiple PHP versions, SSL and DNS - optimized and secure.
Reqad, a free open-source control panel for self-hosting your own sites and email
I've been building Reqad for a few years now, it's a free, open-source (GPL-3) control panel for Rocky/Alma/RHEL 8 & 9. It's made for running a single VPS, so it's a great fit if you want to self-host a few sites, your own email, and WordPress without paying for cPanel or getting locked in.
It handles the usual stuff from one dashboard: websites and domains, email (with spam filtering and webmail), DNS, free Let's Encrypt SSL, WordPress, databases, and backups. Setup is a single install command on a fresh VPS.
Regarding AI: I started this project 8 years ago, long before AI. I use no AI until January 2026. Since then I used AI to modify existing code, to add new features and to review code.
Manage everything from one clean dashboard:
Hosting accounts with disk-usage monitoring
Email: Exim, Dovecot, Roundcube webmail, SpamAssassin, plus SPF/DKIM/SRS, forwarders & autoresponders
DNS management (Cloudflare, PowerDNS, and cPanel/WHM backends)
Let's Encrypt / ACME SSL certificates
WordPress toolkit — one-click install with Wordfence integration
Multiple PHP versions (7.x/8.x) with OPcache, APCu, and a php.ini editor
MySQL/MariaDB administration with phpMyAdmin
cPanel account migration / import wizard
Browser terminal, SSH key management, cron jobs, and full backups
Account-level file manager with CodeMirror editor
Why Reqad:
No per-account licensing and no vendor lock-in — unlimited domains and email
Single-admin model, optimized for one VPS
Hardened security defaults: isolated PHP-FPM pools, CSF firewall, monit monitoring
Predictable costs vs. commercial per-account pricing
Plain PHP, no heavy framework — fast and easy to audit
Supported OS: Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, RHEL 8 & 9
Migration from cPanel looks solid, but one thing that would save me a ton of time is a built-in staging environment for WordPress sites, basically a one-click clone to a subdomain with a separate database so I can test updates and plugin changes safely before pushing live. Would round out the management features nicely.
@caksen87596 Yes, staging for WordPress is nice to have for testing theme/plugins or even a different php version before going to production. The only problem with cloning is that some plugins store settings in a serialized representation and is a little bit harder to check and change. Thank you for your suggestion, it will be implemented for sure.
One thing that would be really helpful is a built-in backup scheduler with off-site destinations like S3 or Backblaze B2. A lot of folks moving from cPanel rely on those automated backups, and having it baked in would make migrations feel way less risky.
@cennetjgkb Thank your for your suggestion, I added scheduled backups and offsite destinations to my todo list.
Solid option for anyone stuck paying cPanel fees. The multi-PHP support and built-in WordPress management covered everything I needed to migrate a couple of client sites off Plesk without much hassle.