🖥️ VPS Manager

Open-Source VPS Management Panel — single-file PHP, lightweight, powerful.

✨ Features

• Websites — Add domains, Nginx vhost auto-config, SSL (Let's Encrypt)
• Databases — Create/drop MySQL & PostgreSQL, phpMyAdmin built-in
• File Manager — Browse, upload, edit, rename, delete, extract archives
• Service Manager — One-click install Nginx, MySQL, PHP, Certbot
• PHP Manager — Install & switch between PHP 5.6 - 8.3
• Cron Jobs — Schedule tasks from UI
• Firewall — Block/unblock IPs, view open ports (Fail2ban + iptables)
• Monitoring — CPU, Memory, Disk, Network live charts + Nginx logs
• Backups — Backup websites & databases, S3/FTP/local storage
• DNS Zones — Manage A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, NS, SRV records
• FTP Accounts — Create & manage FTP users
• Multi-user — Admin + User roles with separate access
• Terminal — Web-based terminal (commands with timeout protection)

🚀 Quick Install

bash <(curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/panelboss/vps-manager/main/install.sh)

During install you'll be prompted to create an admin password.

🔧 Architecture

Component	Port	Purpose
Panel UI	8080	Management panel (separate from websites)
Nginx	80/443	Future user websites
MySQL	3306	Internal
PHP-FPM 8.1	socket	Panel backend

Why port 8080? The panel runs on its own port so that user websites can use ports 80/443 without conflict.

📦 Requirements

• Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04 / 24.04 (clean install recommended)
• Debian 11 / 12
• 1 GB RAM minimum
• Root access

🔐 Security

• bcrypt password hashing
• Session-based auth with auto-logout (2h)
• Command whitelist for terminal (prevents shell injection)
• 30-second timeout on all shell commands
• Fail2ban integration (sshd, nginx, phpmyadmin jails)
• iptables firewall management

📝 License

MIT — free to use, modify, and distribute.