About MaxPanel

Why this exists

cPanel raised prices nine times in five years. The alternative was either build something in-house or rent more cPanel licenses. We picked build.

MaxPanel is the result. Not a fork, not a wrapper around someone else's stack — a from-scratch implementation that gets the isolation model right and ships the tools customers actually use every day.

What we believe

• Tenants belong in cages. Real ones. mount namespaces, XFS quotas, cgroup limits, not chroot theater.
• The trust boundary is sacred. The panel runs unprivileged. It cannot touch the system except through a small, audited RPC surface to a privileged agent.
• Defaults should be safe. SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is on by default. Per-user FPM pools are mandatory. open_basedir stays locked.
• Boring tech wins. Postgres, SQLite, nginx, systemd, restic. No microservices, no Kubernetes, no proprietary stack.
• One binary, one box, one license. Self-hosted means self-hosted. Your data never leaves your server.

Who we are

MaxPanel is built and operated by Cenmax. Reach us via the contact page.