The Hosting Panel That Grew Into a Platform
What started as the first control panel for OpenLiteSpeed is now a complete cloud infrastructure platform — hosting, email, DNS, cloud servers, VPN, and security scanning. Free, open source, and built by engineers who run it in production every day.
From Control Panel to Cloud Platform
Nine years of building infrastructure software — every feature born from a real problem we needed to solve.
CyberMail & CyberDNS
Launched CyberMail — a custom C email server with SMTP, IMAP, POP3, DKIM signing, and built-in anti-spam. Built CyberDNS, an authoritative DNS server in C with DNSSEC support. Expanded the Email Delivery service and DNS Hosting product.
CyberVirt, Cloud Servers & Email Delivery
Built CyberVirt — a Go-based VM lifecycle controller with eBPF DDoS detection and Guardian auto-mitigation. Launched Cloud Server product with ~7s provisioning. Shipped Email Delivery service with 4-node CyberMail cluster, connection pooling, and failover. Introduced HA WordPress hosting with Galera replication and GlusterFS.
Platform Redesign & New Products
Complete site redesign with modern UI/UX. Launched WordPress security scanner, VPN service, load testing tools, and CyberLoader — a high-performance testing engine written in C (10.5K lines).
Docker Apps Manager
Introduced Docker Apps Manager — one-click deployment of WordPress and n8n in isolated containers with OpenLiteSpeed proxy, configurable CPU/RAM limits, and Docker Compose orchestration.
WordPress Manager & File Manager
Launched WordPress Manager for bulk site management and optimization. Added Root File Manager for browser-based file operations without FTP or SSH.
Docker Manager & Mautic
Added Docker Manager for pulling images, managing containers, and monitoring resources from the GUI. Integrated one-click Mautic marketing automation installer.
CloudLinux & Imunify
Integrated CloudLinux for resource isolation and Imunify360 for proactive server defense. Strengthened security and multi-tenant stability.
Email, DNS & FTP
Added full email server management (Postfix + Dovecot), DNS management (PowerDNS), and FTP account management (Pure-FTPd) — making CyberPanel a complete hosting solution.
LiteSpeed Enterprise Support
Became the first control panel to support LiteSpeed Enterprise Web Server, alongside OpenLiteSpeed. Added commercial license management and Enterprise-specific features.
CyberPanel is Born
The first control panel built for OpenLiteSpeed. Created by Usman Nasir out of frustration with the lack of hosting panels supporting the fastest open-source web server. Shared on LowEndTalk and the community rallied behind it.
Built by an Engineer, for Engineers
Usman Nasir
Building CyberPanel since 2017. Systems engineer who writes C, Go, Python, and Django — and runs every line in production.
The CyberPanel Story
CyberPanel started in 2017, born out of a simple frustration: there was no hosting control panel that supported OpenLiteSpeed — the fastest open-source web server available.
Usman Nasir had been running a tech blog and spent months researching web servers. After comparing NGINX, Apache, and LiteSpeed, the benchmarks were clear — LiteSpeed consistently outperformed the rest. He migrated his sites and saw the difference immediately. But there was a problem: every hosting provider bundled their servers with cPanel or Plesk, and neither supported OpenLiteSpeed. You could use it, but you had to manage everything from the command line.
So he built his own panel. The first version was basic — website creation, virtual host management, and the essentials to get a server running. He shared it on LowEndTalk, a community known for being brutally honest. A friend suggested the name "CyberPanel," and it stuck. The response was overwhelming — people had been waiting for exactly this.
In 2018, CyberPanel became the first control panel to support LiteSpeed Enterprise. In 2019, email (Postfix + Dovecot), DNS (PowerDNS), and FTP (Pure-FTPd) were added, turning it into a complete hosting solution. Docker support, WordPress Manager, CloudLinux integration, and ModSecurity followed in the years after.
But the vision kept growing. By 2025, CyberPanel wasn't just a control panel anymore — it was a cloud infrastructure platform. The team built CyberVirt, a Go-based VM controller with eBPF-powered DDoS detection. They wrote CyberMail, a custom SMTP/IMAP server in C that now handles all platform email delivery across four nodes. They deployed CyberDNS, their own authoritative DNS server. They launched cloud servers with sub-10-second provisioning, HA WordPress hosting with Galera replication, a VPN service, and a load testing engine written in C.
Today, CyberPanel is free, open source, and used by tens of thousands of servers worldwide. Every feature exists because the team needed it themselves — and built it instead of buying it.
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