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Announcing CorePanel Personal — free, forever

CorePanel Personal is free forever and ships the complete core hosting stack for RHEL: CoreHttpd, PHP, MariaDB, mail, DNS, SSL and local backups.

A brightly glowing blue stack of five layers standing beside a wide doorway whose door is swung fully open, emerald light spilling out of it across the floor

Today we’re launching CorePanel Personal — a modern hosting control panel for RHEL-based servers, free forever, with no artificial limits on the core stack.

Most control panels either cost money from the first server, or give away a crippled “free” tier that nudges you to upgrade before you’ve done anything useful. We went the other way: Personal ships the complete core hosting stack, and the paid tiers add premium layers on top — not the basics.

What’s in Personal

  • The full stack — CoreHttpd with HTTP/3, PHP 7.4 through 8.4 side by side with dedicated FPM pools, MariaDB 10.11 LTS, and PowerDNS.
  • True user isolation — 0700 directories (0600 files) and a separate system user per account. One compromised site never touches its neighbors.
  • Free SSL — automatic certificates via Let’s Encrypt, renewed for you.
  • Email & DNS — Postfix + Dovecot with SPF and DKIM signing, managed DNS zones.
  • Fast by default — on-the-fly WebP conversion and real Early Hints (HTTP 103), on out of the box.
  • Local scheduled backups with retention pruning.

Install it in one command:

Terminal window
curl -fsSL https://get.corepanel.net/install.sh | bash

Then run corepanel system init to set your hostname, validate DNS, and bring the panel online with SSL.

What’s next

Pro and Business are on sale as of 10 August 2026. Pro adds the Speed Optimizer (dynamic page cache + CSS/JS minification — WebP and Early Hints are already free in Personal), per-domain WAF rules and automatic blocking, and off-site backups to S3-compatible storage or SFTP. Business adds multi-tenant management, a client portal, and WHMCS integration; the rest of its network-protection tier — custom WAF rules, Geo blocking and DDoS L7 — is still being built, and the pricing matrix marks those as Soon rather than included.

Personal’s backups are local and unencrypted — scheduled to a disk on the same server. The full pxShield WAF, every rule family, is already in Personal: what Pro adds is per-domain tuning and acting on what the panel detects, not the firewall itself.

Personal will stay free. If it’s enough for what you run, it always will be.

Read the documentation to get started, or see what’s in each edition.