// the stack

ISPConfig

Hosting control panel for Linux

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ISPConfig is a conductor, not an orchestra. Underneath the panel sit a handful of long-running open-source projects, each doing one job well. Below is the stack that gets installed alongside it, branch by branch.

Web hosting — Serves websites over HTTP / HTTPS 3×

Apache

Web server

Nginx

Web server

PHP

Runtime

Email — Sending, receiving, filtering mail 3×

Postfix

SMTP

Dovecot

IMAP / POP3

Rspamd

Anti-spam

DNS — Resolves domains to addresses 2×

BIND

Name server

PowerDNS

Name server

Database — Stores application data 3×

MariaDB

RDBMS

MySQL

RDBMS

PostgreSQL

RDBMS

FTP — File transfer for users 1×

PureFTPd

FTP server

Statistics — Web traffic reports 3×

AWStats

Log analyser

Webalizer

Log analyser

GoAccess

Log analyser

SSL / TLS — Free, automated certificates 2×

Let’s Encrypt

Certificate authority

acme.sh

ACME client

Operating system — What it all runs on 1×

Debian

GNU/Linux