So I can heartily recommend the Debian Fork of MyVestaCP.

For those folks who have gone off VestaCP, they had good reason.  The owner of VestaCP was not updating the script at all.  And it became a bad security threat during 2019.  Currently there aren’t that many serious hosts using this script, particularly if one judges by the attendance of staff (none available any longer) at the VestaCP Discussion Forum.

Since it was such a good panel script – excellent in fact – there were staff and members who went out to develop working forks for VestaCP.  One was a Belgian Fork, which would have been ideal for me since it was using CentOS, however, too much JavaScript was involved, and I wasn’t comfortable with the security angle of JavaScript.  A large number of the original VestaCP staff opted for creating a new script altogether called Hestia CP.  It may well be OK now, but last I used it it was not that user friendly.  The reception of the new CP that was discussed at post4vps.com was also negative.

So eventually I gravitated to the second VestaCP fork, which was a fork that works with Debian only.  This meant that I had to change my preferred distribution from CentOS to Debian, which in the end was one of the best things that could have happened to me.  I found Debian just so much more logical and stream lined to work with, CentOS appearing almost chaotic and bulky in comparison.  So my recommendation for VestaCP fans, like I still am after all of these years, is the VestaCP Fork with MyVestaCP.

The owner of MyVestaCP is a former staff member of VestaCP with the user name dpeca.  According to dpeca in his last posts at VestaCP he said he was responsible for the administration of a large number of servers, all of which were using VestaCP.  So it was in his interest to have an up to date and secure panel.  Since it’s much too much work to update the script for all of the Linux distributions, he decided to focus on Debian only.  That impressed me a lot.  So in the end I’m benefiting from his dedication to Debian as a distribution and his keeping the VestaCP script up to date through his fork at MyVestaCP.

Indeed my greatest appreciation to dpeca and MyVestaCP!  Also to the owner of afreecloud.com.  I’ve been hosted by KuJoe with VestaCP user hosting at afreecloud.com since 2016 and haven’t experienced any down time during all of that period.  I notice the free hosting is no longer offered “for now” as KuJoe is trying to update the VestaCP script.