KarnakPanel runs your hosting business on your own VPS — websites, mail, DNS, databases, backups and security in one calm UI. No license server. No per-domain fees. Now with Karnak Builder, the free drag-and-drop site builder, built in.
Everyday tools up front, server health one glance away. Simplified here for readability — the real panel has the same layout with more rows.
The real KarnakPanel dashboard — v1.5.41 on Ubuntu 24.04 + OpenLiteSpeed.
A free drag-and-drop website builder, built right into KarnakPanel. Start from 75 templates across 10 categories — or a blank canvas — drop sections onto the page, and publish to any domain on your server. No extra fee, no separate tool — your hosting panel builds sites now.
/blog/ with tags, drafts, paging, RSS and sitemap entries.cPanel bills you per account. Free panels make you pick two of speed, mail, or DNS. This is the setup we wanted for our own VPSs — for $0 in software costs.
No pro tier, no domain caps, no license server phoning home. We are here to stay.
OpenLiteSpeed + LSCache with per-domain PHP 8.3–8.5 pools. The stack people pay Enterprise licenses for, pre-wired.
Exim + Dovecot + SpamAssassin with deliverability scoring out of 100, DKIM wizard and SPF hard-fail.
Signed updates, enforced staff 2FA, breached-password checks, bot shields. Read the security story →
Packages with enforced limits, per-client usage, suspend/unsuspend, plus WHMCS hooks when you scale.
Audited Bash backend, framework-free PHP, full API tokens, server-transfer tools. Click it or script it.
HostBMS is a self-hosted billing platform for web hosts and a WHMCS alternative: clients, orders, invoices, payments, provisioning and support in one app on your own server. The KarnakPanel module is built in.
Accounts are created, suspended, unsuspended and deleted on your KarnakPanel automatically. Nothing to wire up: install HostBMS, point it at your panel, and billing drives provisioning.
Early development — HostBMS v0.2 preview, not production ready. Test on a spare site first.
Native distro packages with an audited Bash backend. If something breaks at 3am, you can read the script that manages it.
If you can spin up a supported Linux with root SSH, you can run a hosting business.
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / Debian 13 fresh | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS |
| RAM | 2 GB | 4 GB+ (with ClamAV) |
| Disk | 20 GB SSD | 50 GB+ SSD |
| Access | root SSH | root SSH + key |
A filterable template gallery with live click-through previews (75 templates in 10 categories, 9 site styles, blog support), and customer PHP now runs in a systemd sandbox — read-only system, its own process list and /dev/shm, setuid and low-level calls blocked.
The panel runs as its own system user with a script allow-list, the web server reads only website folders, and every account gets a private /tmp for PHP, cron jobs and supervised apps.
Copy every folder from another IMAP account in the background, one-click Joomla 6 and Drupal 11, and a builder blog at /blog/ with tags, drafts, paging, RSS and sitemap — plus four more site styles.
A free drag-and-drop website builder in the panel: 40 templates in 9 categories, autosave with roll-back history, desktop/tablet/phone views, private preview links, publish / offline / back online, published sites as cleaned static files — plus Software → Installed apps gets a Remove button (files and optionally the database, with builder sites and other apps left alone).
A quick-actions dashboard with a live 5-second server panel, a full stats revamp (people vs bots, scanner probes, per-account usage), searchable DNS zones with a tabbed editor, a live firewall with recent-bans and never-ban lists, a rebuilt one-click Software page with live install progress, HestiaCP import, usage alerts, reseller branding, and password/2FA resets.
Nextcloud / Laravel / WooCommerce presets.
Transfer tools ship today; true clustering is explicitly not in v1.x.
Every module + reseller + API + unlimited domains, mailboxes, FTPS and databases. No license server. No phone-home. If you can run a supported Linux, you can run a hosting business for $0.
There will be glitches. Report one and you'll get a human reply, not a ticket black hole. There will never be a paywall — donations welcome, never required.