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Blog & News

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

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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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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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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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HTTP 430, 440, 423 and the Other Status Codes That Are Not in Any RFC

Some status codes are missing from every reference because no RFC defines them. HTTP 430 is Shopify. 440 is IIS. 423 is real but almost nobody sends it. Here is who emits each one, what it actually means, and how to find out which layer produced it.

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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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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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TeamSpeak 6 Server Hosting in 2026: What You Can Actually Run Today

The TeamSpeak 6 server is still beta — v6.0.0-beta12.1 as of 28 July 2026, with a 32-slot beta licence and no migration path from TeamSpeak 3. Here is how to self-host it in Docker, which ports matter, and when to stay on TS3.

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cPanel Unlimited Accounts: What "Unlimited" Actually Costs in 2026

cPanel has no unlimited-account licence. Premier stops at 100 accounts and charges $0.49 for every account after that. Here is the real monthly math at 250, 500 and 1000 accounts, and what it does to your per-account margin.

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Running Docker Apps Next to Your Websites: The Complete 2026 Guide

How to run containerised applications on the same server as your PHP websites without one starving the other — resource limits that actually hold, domains and certificates that survive renewal, backups that restore, and the ownership model that makes it safe on a multi-tenant box.

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Is Plesk Free? The Honest Answer About Trials, Limits and What You Actually Pay in 2026

Plesk is not free. There is a 14-day full-feature trial, one per person or server. After that every edition is a paid subscription. Here are the current prices, the domain limits and the extras that push the bill higher.

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Process Killed: Fixing Out-of-Memory Errors on a Server With RAM to Spare

Your terminal printed "Killed" and free -h shows plenty of RAM. Here is what actually happened, how to find the real limit with dmesg, and how to fix it in Panelica without touching a config file by hand.

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Docker Hosting vs Docker VPS vs Container PaaS: What Is the Difference?

Three different products, often confused. Clear definitions, a side-by-side comparison, the control-vs-convenience trade-off, and how to pick the right one.

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