Blog & News

Blog & News

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

Announcement

One Panel, One Update Channel: Unified Across the RHEL and Debian Families

Panelica supports AlmaLinux, Rocky, Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS Stream through a single update channel. One binary, one patch cycle, no CloudLinux required.

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Tutorial

EasyPanel vs Panelica: Heroku-Style Docker vs Multi-Tenant Hosting

EasyPanel deploys your apps via Cloud Native Buildpacks without a Dockerfile. Panelica hosts your customers with isolated PHP, email, DNS, and multi-tenant resource limits. Both are self-hosted -- but they solve different problems.

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Tutorial

RunCloud vs Panelica: External SaaS vs Self-Hosted Panel

RunCloud manages your server from a Singapore SaaS layer. Panelica runs on your server with no external dependency. At scale, the pricing gap and data residency difference become significant. Here is the 2026 breakdown.

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Tutorial

Coolify vs Panelica: Self-Hosted Vercel vs Full Hosting Platform

Coolify is where developers deploy their own apps. Panelica is where operators host their customers. Both are self-hosted and EU-aligned -- but they solve fundamentally different problems. Here is the 2026 breakdown.

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Tutorial

OpenPanel vs Panelica: Per-User Docker vs 5-Layer Kernel Isolation

OpenPanel runs a Docker container per user. Panelica uses kernel-level cgroups and namespaces. Both deliver real isolation, but the architecture trade-offs are significant at scale. Here is the 2026 breakdown.

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Tutorial

CloudPanel vs Panelica: PHP Cloud Stack vs Full Multi-Tenant Hosting

CloudPanel is a great free app panel for single operators. But when you have paying customers and need per-user isolation, email, and DNS, the architecture gap becomes visible fast. Here is how the two panels compare in 2026.

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Tutorial

HestiaCP vs Panelica: Modern Go Rewrite vs Vesta Fork

HestiaCP runs vanilla LAMP under Bash and costs nothing. Panelica replaces the control plane with a Go binary and React UI. This is an objective technical comparison for VPS owners managing 10-50 domains and deciding where to grow in 2026.

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Security

Why EU Hosting Companies Are Replacing US-Built Panels in 2026

NIS2, Schrems III, and the US CLOUD Act have converged to make vendor jurisdiction a board-level compliance question for EU hosting operators. A practical framework for evaluating your panel vendor before the next regulatory shock -- and why this is the year to document your answer. Covers the 7-question NIS2 supply chain audit checklist, a full vendor jurisdiction table, and what EU-aligned actually requires from a hosting panel or cPanel alternative.

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Security

aaPanel vs Panelica: China-Origin Code and the EU Hosting Decision

EU hosting operators subject to GDPR face a compliance-due-diligence question that free pricing cannot answer: where does your panel software originate, what does it call home, and can you document that for an Article 28 audit? This comparison examines aaPanel vs Panelica on architecture, feature gating, kernel isolation, and EU compliance posture — including why "aaPanel is free" is the wrong starting question for a cPanel alternative evaluation.

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Tutorial

Migrating from Plesk to Panelica: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough

Open Backup > Migration, point at your Plesk server on port 8443, and let the wizard handle the rest. A complete visual walkthrough: 7 inline UI mockups, Plesk-specific subscription/customer/mail-domain terminology, Plesk email decryption, and every decision point from Connect to DNS cutover.

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Tutorial

Migrating from cPanel to Panelica: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough

A visual walkthrough of Panelica's built-in Migration wizard: every form, every step, and 7 inline UI mockups showing the exact interface. Covers the full 11-stage pipeline, hash-preserving database transfer, DNS cutover, and common cPanel gotchas.

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Security

What CVE-2026-41940 Reveals About a 30-Year-Old Codebase Architecture

CVE-2026-41940 is technically a CRLF injection flaw. Architecturally, it is something larger: a vulnerability class documented since the early 2000s applied against a session-handling pattern from 1996. This post examines what a 30-year architectural foundation means for 2026 threat actors, and why choosing a cPanel alternative now means asking architectural questions.

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