This blog was started in 2016. KuJoe of Afreecloud.com offered free hosting with a VestaCP User Panel and I was an enthusiastic VestaCP student at the time. His hosting afforded me the opportunity to learn the workings of the User End of VestaCP. It was a great learning experience as I soon learned that KuJoe is a whizz with panels. CPanel had become unaffordable, particularly for free hosting, and VestaCP was free. It was also an ideal Panel for a VPS because of having Nginx with Apache making it one of the lightest and fastest panels around.
Sadly though as time marched on the owner of the VestaCP script failed to keep it secure. From 2018 there were many hackings reported and some of the server hosts even refused to have a VestaCP script on their servers. For those who were VestaCP enthusiasts like myself however there were former Admin of the VestaCP Forum who developed VestaCP forks. There were also a group of former Admin of VestaCP who developed a new panel script called HestiaCP. KuJoe decided to opt for the latter, and is in the process of making the experience almost as positive as for VestaCP.
I’m aware of two VestaCP forks – one for CentOS in Belgium, and another for Debian MyVestaCP. I tried the fork for CentOS however it was so heavily loaded with Java that I decided to let it go. In the end my favourite fork was the one that is being maintained by a former Admin of VestaCP – dpeca – called MyVestaCP. I’m currently using this panel on my VPS and am very happy with it. I used to be a CentOS user, however my change to Debian was definitely for the better. CentOS in my experience in comparison with Debian is too bulky and chaotic; Debian is a much more streamlined and focused OS. Dpeca is doing a wonderful job of updating MyVestaCP on a regular basis. Dpeca says he has a great number of clients who are all using VestaCP, so it is in his interest to keep the fork completely up to date.
I’m still a fan of Dpeca’s VestaCP fork for Debian to this day. Dpeca has consistently been developing security updates and is doing an excellent job for maintaining VestaCP Documentation and Discussion Forum. 2026 is my eighth year of using VestaCP as my Control Panel of choice for a VPS.