ApisCP is an open-source hosting platform for your
PHP, Ruby, Node, Python, and Go projects. Set-it-and-forget-it SSL with 1-click,
automatically update web apps, securely isolate and clone WordPress sites, block threats real-time,
fix OS configuration drifts, resolve service defects, and
keep your site operating at peak performance.
ApisCP helped us create a hosting company. Now it's your turn.
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Get a product built by pros in the industry
ApisCP is built by a hosting company for hosting. It's the only hosting platform
built for its original audience by its intended audience. ApisCP integrates
a wealth of knowledge rolled up into best practices that achieves higher throughput,
lower TTFB, fewer burnt CPU cycles, and denser servers than any other product on the market.
Any job worth doing is worth doing well.
Built differently because progress is change
Licensing-free
ApisCP is built to standalone.
Builtin features include
1-click installs, resource enforcement,
jailing, defect monitoring, outbound filtering,
malware scans, and backups.
Simple to use
Good design is simple. ApisCP configures
itself optimally at install. Explore
Scopes, which provide a guided
tuning environment.
Self-sustaining
ApisCP automatically configures services, tunes on demand,
and provides defect monitoring including monthly integrity
checks through Bootstrapper.
Security-focused
ApisCP received Rack911's recommendation during
an audit of emerging control panels.
The developer was one of the best that we interacted with
We had to pick from the 6 alternative control panels... it would be
ApisCP
Speed matters, which is why ApisCP is built with meticulous consideration for all components. On average
ApisCP's backend can process over 13,000 privileged commands per second.
Privilege escalation through careful API calls to its backend is
just one way security
comes first.
Each account gets its own individual control panel separate from the master.
Web Apps
Effortlessly setup and automatically update
Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Ghost, Laravel, Magento, and Discourse from within ApisCP.
Setup SSL + create restricted write-only profiles for PHP applications with
Fortification.
Let's Encrypt SSL
One-click setup + renewal of Let's Encrypt SSL. Take advantage of HTTP/2
with easy, free SSL sponsored by Let's Encrypt.
Add + Manage Sites
Add, delete, and edit your sites from a single point. You can even login
to each of these accounts from Nexus.
File Manager
Manage your files in a pinch with ApisCP. Upload, download, change permissions, do it
all
from within the panel or use its integrated WebDAV support if you desire.
I just decided to put one of my own apps on ApisCP using Redis and Horizon for Laravel queues for realtime push
notifications. It's a SaaS app I'm building for a specific industry and have had it deployed on an Ubuntu server
for maximum control since cPanel doesn't speak Redis or long running processes like Horizon without adding
Supervisor. Setting this up on ApisCP really wasn't that hard and it works amazingly well and extremely fast.
Thanks @Matt for your amazing customer service, support and development skills. ❤️
Troy Siedsma – President, Lithium Hosting
A new standard in modern hosting
ApisCP is built by hosting companies for hosting companies.
Our tools are designed to maximize efficiency and reduce
misconfiguration while keeping third-party dependencies
to a minimum.
Tools to help you succeed
Scoped configuration
Scopes reduce complex tasks into
simple one-line commands with error checking.
Smarthost, brute-force limits, hostname, and more.
Platform automation
ApisCP automates everything on your server. Automation
can be run multiple times to easily detect and correct changes
on your server.
Intelligent updates
ApisCP updates WordPress, Drupal, Ghost, Discourse,
and Laravel whenever new updates are available.
Designed to keep you secure
Just last month, ApisCP helped with...
4,399
Updates deployed
ApisCP automatically deploys updates upon release,
including WordPress plugins and themes.
513,416
Threats neutralized
ApisCP monitors all services for
irregular activity and blocks these threats
before they do harm.
172,821
Emails rejected
ApisCP monitors both inbound and outbound mail
from the server looking for potentially malicious
mail.
Quickly customize ApisCP. All values can be overrode at a late date by
editing
apnscp-vars.yml or using cpcmd.
You can always reset your panel password from terminal.
Zero-configuration – sit back and relax while ApisCP automatically configures your server.
Bootstrapper checks system integrity and can be run again and again to detect and
correct only changes in your system.
Simple DNS integration
ApisCP supports a variety of plug-and-play DNS integrations. Select the provider, enter its authentication key,
and ApisCP handles the rest. Different sites can use different DNS providers. The choice is yours.
Need DNS for a provider not listed? Just use an example module to guide you!
Integrated monitoring
01:21
Argos
Service Alert
From Argos on
6/22/25 at 1:20 AM
[myserver] ApisCP alert - process is not running
Service Alert
From Argos on
6/22/25 at 1:21 AM
[myserver] ApisCP alert - process is running with pid 32120
ApisCP comes with Argos, the perfect decentralized monitoring solution.
Argos monitors and repairs your server. If it detects a fault it sends a message to your phone.
Spend more time traveling and less time worrying.
Powerful features
Enormous API
ApisCP ships with a reflected API that exposes over 2,000 commands.
Achieve everything within the panel from outside the panel – or just use Beacon,
a CLI API companion.
Multi-tenant isolation
ApisCP is multi-tenant. Multi-tenancy allows you to host multiple sites managed
by multiple users with isolation and resource containment for each account.
Adaptive firewall
ApisCP is built for real-world hosting, which is under constant threat from
hackers. ApisCP integrates rate-limited dynamic blacklists and permanent
recidivism for persistent threats.
Light & nimble
Everything works best with more memory, but ApisCP
is designed to run
proficiently
on 2 GB platforms by minimizing auxiliary
processes and exploiting modern software.
Builtin cache
Upstream caching is built into the web server.
Just send the requisite "cache-control"
headers and let the web server accelerate your content
improving WordPress throughput by 24x.
Playbook driven
ApisCP utilizes Ansible playbooks
to provide a powerful, consistent, and intuitive
provisioning process. Once provisioned, ApisCP takes over.
Simple migrations
ApisCP includes an easy-to-use unassisted migration
tool.
Use a supported DNS provider and ApisCP will migrate your accounts
between platforms with zero downtime.
Built for longevity
ApisCP works with RHEL and CentOS, with 10 year support lifecycles. Ubuntu LTS-based
products only provide 5 years of ongoing support.
DNS independence
ApisCP works great with Linode, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare,
and more. Declare your DNS
provider,
set the API key, and that's it.
Full DNS management within ApisCP.
Use any-version
Users may roll out any version of Ruby,
Python, Node, and Go within their account.
Each version is private to their account.
Limit resources
Limit resources per-account using control groups,
built into ApisCP. Restrict memory consumption, assign
CPU priority, and limit process counts.
Tuners welcome
Customization makes any product great. You can
customize the panel internals
up to the theme
and even the apps.
Comprehensive integrity
ApisCP playbooks are idempotent
ensuring that it can be run multiple times
to detect service anomalies. Munged something? Just run the playbook.
Push monitoring
Argos is a collection
of monitoring patterns developed over 16 years in hosting.
Travel without worry. It fixes what it can and only alerts
you during extremes.
Go headless
Quickly set the panel into headless
to block external access. Fret not! Every command in the panel
is reflected from terminal with
cpcmd.
Pricing
Pro license
$20/month
Licenses are priced per server. Host as many domains as resources permit.
No restrictions on usage. Price guaranteed.
lifetime license$499
Lifetime licenses work for all versions forever— that's lifetime!
Host unlimited domains + accounts, no restrictions
A single ApisCP server can manage as many sites as resources permit. We've used
ApisCP to host over 1,250 domains on a 32 GB machine, but discourage this in favor
of multiple small servers:
There is diminishing marginal return with larger servers. Caches must be larger
to accommodate increase data, which is counterintuitive to an efficient cache. PHP
and MySQL especially suffer from retrograde performance as cache requirements
grow beyond 1 GB.
More sites draw more attacks; it's not uncommon for a server hosting 250 sites to block
over 2,500 IPs a day.
Hardware fails. Avoid single points of failure by distributing clients across
multiple servers. ApisCP provides monthly server summaries to help you
administrate.
Accounts create configuration that must load before a service starts. Increased startup
times hurt resiliency. In the case of MySQL, it can take over 5 minutes to start
on servers with many thousand InnoDB tables.
5 databases/site × 20 tables per database × 500 sites = 50,000 tables
While there is no set formula, we recommend no more than 250 accounts on a 16 GB server to
provide an elastic buffer for traffic surges. Whatever memory is not used for processing
is used by the kernel for caching. ApisCP is capable of maintaining itself and with a
proxied install, completely transparent to the user.
Why Apache over Nginx?
Apache is used to provide comprehensive compatibility and protection. For example,
Nginx has no comparable inherited rewrite facility that is used to
dynamically redirect
a variety of subdomain tiers unique to ApisCP. Apache's Event MPM operates similar
to Nginx's event loop and in benchmarks is about 2 milliseconds slower.
A web site's chokepoint therefore is not the web server, but how congested a
server is from external threats. ApisCP bundles
an enhanced mod_evasive module
that blocks abusive IPs across all virtual servers.
Nginx has a similar component but lacks granular control found with ApisCP's mod_evasive release.
What support is available?
Support is separated into free community-driven and paid support. All licenses include
1 free bronze support request/year.
Community support includes forums and chat.
It is the best way to get support in a public setting that benefits everyone else who might have a similar concern.
Paid support includes SLA response times as well as an emergency 1-hour turnaround with no blackouts. Support is
priced per incident with 1 hour maximum time. Paid support plans are structured to
keep licensing costs low, support quality high, and focus human resources on development.
Support exists in absence of a good product. There is little incentive to make ApisCP anything
but an extraordinary product.
How did ApisCP begin?
ApisCP began as the control panel for Apis
Networks in 2002, originally nicknamed "APNSCP".
In fact, its name Apis NetworksControl Panel reflects its heritage.
Over the years it has grown and achieved in large part to customer feedback through our separate hosting
outfit. Today that hosting company continues to serve as an internal testing environment for ApisCP.
Are refunds provided?
No refunds are provided. ApisCP includes a 30-day free trial to evaluate the product.
