# 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.

Source: https://www.corepanel.net/blog/announcing-corepanel-personal
Author: CorePanel Team
Published: 2026-07-14
Updated: 2026-08-10
Tags: announcement, personal
From the CorePanel blog — https://www.corepanel.net/blog

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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:

```bash
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](https://www.corepanel.net/pricing) 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](https://www.corepanel.net/docs) to get started, or see [what's in each edition](https://www.corepanel.net/pricing).