Unicorn Panel

Running a hosting fleet usually means a separate control panel on every server. Separate logins, separate updates, and no single view of what's running where. Most traditional panels were built for one box at a time and install a tangle of services directly onto the host OS. Unicorn Panel is a self-hosted control panel built for multi-server fleets. Manage every website, database, mailbox, and DNS zone across all your servers from one dashboard. How it works Every service runs in its own Podman container on Alpine Linux or Ubuntu, so the host stays lean and services remain isolated from each other. Upgrades, PHP version changes, and role additions happen inside containers without touching the host OS. The panel runs on amd64 and arm64, mixed in the same fleet. What you can host - Websites with NGINX, Apache, OpenLiteSpeed, or Sleipnir, chosen per site - WordPress, Laravel, static HTML, Node, Python, Go, and anything else that fits in a container - Multiple PHP versions side by side, from 5.6 through the latest 8.6, each in its own image - MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Mimir as deployable roles with Redis and Memcached inside your website's container - Reverse Proxy sites that terminate SSL at the edge and route to any backend URL you specify (new in v16) - Email hosting with per-domain mailboxes, DKIM signing, Sieve filtering, and ClamAV virus scanning - Authoritative DNS with full DNSSEC, glue records, and automatic zone templates - Free Let's Encrypt SSL on every site, auto-renewed before expiry Fleet-wide operations - One admin login sees every server, every site, every mailbox - Per-site resource caps for CPU, memory, disk, bandwidth, request rate, and concurrent connections - Edge rate limiting keyed per IP and per site - Live metrics for CPU, memory, disk, bandwidth, and visitors, with 60 days of history - Nightly backups to local disk, remote SSH, or S3 compatible storage - Centralized access logs, error logs, cron logs, and an audit trail of every panel action Security built in - Unicorn Shield blocks known-bad IPs from Spamhaus DROP, Feodo, and other threat feeds, refreshed every 60 minutes - A Web Application Firewall scans access logs for probing patterns and bans offenders with escalating timeouts - File Integrity Monitoring hashes everything under /opt/upcp, /etc, and /usr/local/bin, alerting on drift - Per-site PHP open_basedir and container boundaries so a compromised site cannot reach the host or neighbouring tenants - Role-based access for operators, resellers, and collaborators, with 2FA and WebAuthn passkeys Deployment Available as a one-click deploy on the Vultr Marketplace, or install directly from the shell on any Alpine 3.20+, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, or Ubuntu 26.04 LTS host with 512 MB RAM. The first server becomes the primary panel. Add more with a single enrollment command and they join the fleet in under a minute. Pricing and privacy Free up to a small fleet (max 2 servers, 2 accounts), paid tiers scale with the number of sites and mailboxes you host. Everything you deploy stays on your own hardware. No tenant data leaves your infrastructure except for Let's Encrypt validation and threat feed downloads. Built for sysadmins, hosting providers, and agencies who manage many sites across many servers and want fleet-wide control without surrendering ownership of the stack.