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Blog & News

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

Tutorial

Docker App Hosting for Resellers: What You Sell, and Why No One Gets Root

How to sell one-click Docker app hosting: what the customer buys, the three product shapes, real multi-tenant isolation, and a shared hosting vs VPS vs container comparison.

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Tutorial

Self-Hosted Alternatives: What Each App Actually Needs to Run

How to read a Docker app catalogue memory figure honestly: main-container floors, multi-container apps, the Immich example, and plain OS containers for building your own stack.

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Announcement

Introducing PNLCS: Open-Source Hosting Billing With Docker App Hosting Built In

PNLCS, our free MIT-licensed WHMCS alternative, now sells and manages Docker application hosting end to end: customers install from a catalogue of about 98 one-click apps, each fenced to their own account.

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Announcement

The Panelica Docker Template Catalog Is Now Open Source

The JSON templates behind Docker Manager App Store are now public and MIT-licensed on GitHub. Fork it, add an app, and it ships to every Panelica server after review.

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Security

VMware vCenter/ESXi Critical Vulnerabilities (2026): What Hosting Providers Must Do Now

Broadcom disclosed three critical vCenter/ESXi flaws (CVE-2026-59309, CVE-2026-59310, CVE-2026-47876) with no workarounds. Here is what happened, why hosting providers are the top target, and how to respond.

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Tutorial

403 Forbidden: A Decision Tree for Permissions, WAF Rules and the Ones That Only Happen on HTTPS

A 403 has five common sources and they need opposite fixes. Here is how to tell file permissions from a WAF block from an access rule in under two minutes, including the 403s that appear only over HTTPS.

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Tutorial

SOGo vs Roundcube: Groupware or Webmail, and Why the Answer Is Rarely Both

Roundcube is a webmail client. SOGo is a groupware server with calendars, contacts and ActiveSync. They are not competitors, and picking the wrong one costs you either features you needed or complexity you did not.

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Tutorial

Roundcube Alternatives in 2026: What to Run Instead, and When Not to Bother

SnappyMail, SOGo, Cypht and Nextcloud Mail compared against Roundcube 1.7.2. RainLoop is finished, SOGo 6 is still alpha, and for most servers the honest answer is that Roundcube is fine — here is when it is not.

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Tutorial

aaPanel vs CyberPanel in 2026: Two Free Panels Chasing the Same Server

Both are free, both run on RHEL-family Linux, both ship Docker. aaPanel wins on application catalogue and polish; CyberPanel wins on web server performance and open governance. The security records point in different directions.

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Tutorial

CentOS Web Panel vs VestaCP in 2026: One Is Still Patched, the Other Has Not Cut a Release Since 2021

CWP shipped a security-focused release on 27 July 2026. VestaCP's last tagged release was November 2021, though commits continue. If you are choosing between them for a RHEL-family server, that gap is the entire decision.

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Tutorial

ISPConfig vs HestiaCP in 2026: The Multi-Server Veteran Against the Modern Single-Box Panel

ISPConfig manages clusters and mirrors across many machines and moves slowly on purpose. HestiaCP manages one server with a far better interface and moves fast, including a heavy July 2026 patch cycle. Which trade-off fits your setup.

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Tutorial

CyberPanel vs HestiaCP in 2026: Speed, Security Record and What Each One Actually Ships

CyberPanel gives you OpenLiteSpeed and RHEL support; HestiaCP gives you a mail stack and Debian-family stability. Both shipped serious security releases in July 2026. A comparison that includes the parts vendors leave out.

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