Use Cases

What Can You Do With CyberPanel?

CyberPanel (CP) is a server management tool. However, with the exception of the CP development team, no one leases a server with the sole intent of running CP but rather to run a high performance website/web service. In the current vernacular, the use cases. So the question we are going to answer here are:

1. Which use cases does CP support "out of the box?"
2. Which LSWS license best supports these use cases?
3. Which use cases should be avoided at this stage of CP's development?
4. We also take this opportunity to tip our hats to the industry leader in control panels, cPanel, and to editorialize a bit about services you may not want to self-host.

Out of the Box

CyberPanel (CP) is designed to control servers running LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) so supports most any PHP application that runs on the LAMP/LEMP stacks. Those stand for Linux, Apache, and PHP/Linux Nginx, MySQL, PHP respectively. There a number of popular 1-step installable apps such as WordPress available at the push of a button.

Recommended use cases include: active blogs (with complex editorial workflow), large directory sites, high volume eCommerce sites, and active user communities (e.g. forums). Most anything that would get you kicked off of shared hosting for consuming too many resources.

Here is a List of Services Installed by CP. You can deactivate the ones you do not need and run others you might prefer outside of CP's control.

Which LSWS Supports These Use Cases

CyberPanel (CP) is free. However you have a choice of GPL or enterprise licensing for the LiteSpeed Web Server it installs. There is a free version of the enterprise license so the decision cannot be made on price alone. Let your use case guide you. Large eCommerce and user communities will usully prefer a paid LSWS Enterprise license. Here's why:

CP was initially targeted towards Open LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS OLS) users. However, as OLS lacks private data caching, it is s best suited for read intensive use cases such as blogs and directory sites. Those greatly benefit from public data caching and LSWS is an, perhaps the, industry leader in public data caching.

On the other hand, online merchants and communities will paradoxically give their most prized customers the worst service in the absence of private data caching because one should not share their shopping cart, order history, etc. with other users. So as soon as a customer logs-in, they must bypass cache. As the lifeblood of online merchants is returning customers and similarly, online communities live-and-die based on active members private data caching should be considered a must-have.