Services and Functions

ISPConfig 3 is an open source hosting control panel for Linux which is capable of managing multiple servers from one control panel. ISPConfig is licensed under the BSD license.

Single and Multiserver Management

  • Manage one or more servers from one control panel
  • Can be installed on physical servers and virtual machines

Access Levels

  • Administrator
  • Resellers
  • Clients

Supported Daemons/Software

  • HTTP: Apache2 and nginx
  • SMTP: Postfix
  • POP3/IMAP: Dovecot
  • FTP: PureFTPd
  • DNS: BIND and PowerDNS
  • Database: MariaDB and MySQL
  • Statistics: Webalizer, AWStats and GoAccess
  • Virtualization: OpenVZ

Supported Linux Distributions

  • Debian 10 – 12 (recommended)
  • Ubuntu 18.04 – 22.04 (recommended)
  • CentOS 7 - 8

Supported Languages

  • English
  • German
  • Bulgarian
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Dutch
  • Finnish
  • French
  • Greek
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Slovak
  • Turkish

Managed Services

  • IPv4 support
  • IPv6 support
  • Websites
    • Name-based and IP-based virtual hosts
    • SSL websites
    • SNI support, allows more than one SSL vhost per IP address
    • CGI
    • PHP (available PHP modes for Apache: PHP-FPM and PHP-FCGI; for nginx: PHP-FPM
    • Individual PHP settings per website
    • SSI
    • Ruby (Apache only)
    • Python (Apache only)
    • Rewrites/redirects
    • Custom Apache/nginx directives
    • Subdomains
    • Alias domains
    • Password-protected folders (basic http authentication)
    • WebDAV (Apache only)
  • FTP users
  • MySQL databases
  • Shell users (jailed and non-jailed), SFTP, SCP; password- and key-based logins
  • Email
    • SMTP
    • POP3, IMAP, POP3S, IMAPS
    • Email accounts
    • Email aliases
    • Spamfilter
    • Postgry greylisting
    • DKIM Mail signing
    • Virus filter
    • Whitelists
    • Blacklists
    • Header and body checks
    • Autoresponder
    • Fetching emails from remote servers with getmail
    • Mailman mailing lists
    • XMPP Chat Server
  • DNS
    • DNS wizard for creating zones easily
    • Management of DNS zones and records
    • Import tool for BIND zone files
    • DNSSEC
    • Supported record types: A, AAAA, ALIAS, CNAME, DKIM, DMARC,, HINFO, MX, NS, PTR, RP, SPF, SRV, TXT
    • Master and slave DNS servers
  • Virtualization (through OpenVZ)
  • Firewall
  • Webalizer, GoAccess & AWStats statistics
  • Quota/Traffic Limits
    • Harddisk quota
    • Mail quota
    • Traffic limits and statistics