Blog & News

Blog & News

Latest updates, feature announcements, and security news from Panelica.

Announcement

The Panelica Docker Template Catalog Is Now Open Source

The JSON templates behind Docker Manager App Store are now public and MIT-licensed on GitHub. Fork it, add an app, and it ships to every Panelica server after review.

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Security

VMware vCenter/ESXi Critical Vulnerabilities (2026): What Hosting Providers Must Do Now

Broadcom disclosed three critical vCenter/ESXi flaws (CVE-2026-59309, CVE-2026-59310, CVE-2026-47876) with no workarounds. Here is what happened, why hosting providers are the top target, and how to respond.

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Tutorial

403 Forbidden: A Decision Tree for Permissions, WAF Rules and the Ones That Only Happen on HTTPS

A 403 has five common sources and they need opposite fixes. Here is how to tell file permissions from a WAF block from an access rule in under two minutes, including the 403s that appear only over HTTPS.

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Tutorial

SOGo vs Roundcube: Groupware or Webmail, and Why the Answer Is Rarely Both

Roundcube is a webmail client. SOGo is a groupware server with calendars, contacts and ActiveSync. They are not competitors, and picking the wrong one costs you either features you needed or complexity you did not.

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Tutorial

Roundcube Alternatives in 2026: What to Run Instead, and When Not to Bother

SnappyMail, SOGo, Cypht and Nextcloud Mail compared against Roundcube 1.7.2. RainLoop is finished, SOGo 6 is still alpha, and for most servers the honest answer is that Roundcube is fine — here is when it is not.

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Tutorial

aaPanel vs CyberPanel in 2026: Two Free Panels Chasing the Same Server

Both are free, both run on RHEL-family Linux, both ship Docker. aaPanel wins on application catalogue and polish; CyberPanel wins on web server performance and open governance. The security records point in different directions.

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Tutorial

CentOS Web Panel vs VestaCP in 2026: One Is Still Patched, the Other Has Not Cut a Release Since 2021

CWP shipped a security-focused release on 27 July 2026. VestaCP's last tagged release was November 2021, though commits continue. If you are choosing between them for a RHEL-family server, that gap is the entire decision.

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Tutorial

ISPConfig vs HestiaCP in 2026: The Multi-Server Veteran Against the Modern Single-Box Panel

ISPConfig manages clusters and mirrors across many machines and moves slowly on purpose. HestiaCP manages one server with a far better interface and moves fast, including a heavy July 2026 patch cycle. Which trade-off fits your setup.

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Tutorial

CyberPanel vs HestiaCP in 2026: Speed, Security Record and What Each One Actually Ships

CyberPanel gives you OpenLiteSpeed and RHEL support; HestiaCP gives you a mail stack and Debian-family stability. Both shipped serious security releases in July 2026. A comparison that includes the parts vendors leave out.

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Tutorial

aaPanel vs HestiaCP in 2026: Two Free Panels, Two Very Different Bargains

HestiaCP is European, fully open source and shipped 1.9.8 on 30 July 2026 after patching a wave of critical CVEs in the open. aaPanel is free with a $198/year Pro tier and a Chinese lineage that raises questions some hosts cannot ignore. A direct comparison.

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Tutorial

500 vs 502 vs 503 vs 504: Which One Is Your Server Actually Returning?

The four 5xx codes point at four different layers. 500 is the application, 502 is a broken reply from upstream, 503 is nothing available to ask, 504 is a reply that never arrived. Telling them apart takes one log line and saves an hour of guessing.

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Tutorial

The Right HTTP Status Code for Maintenance Mode (and How to Set It in Nginx, Apache and WordPress)

A maintenance page must return 503 with a Retry-After header, not 200. Here is the configuration for Nginx, Apache and WordPress, how to let your own IP through, and what serving the wrong code does to your search rankings.

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