Self-Hosted: Questions before choosing my CP

siimo

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to host some websites (mostly WordPress, and a few PHP framework sites like Laravel). After a long and exhausting search, I found Enhance panel. I was surprised by the huge number of features, many of which I probably won't need since I'm not a hosting provider just someone who likes to manage his own stuff and is very obsessed with security and protection. I'm also really interested in using Docker containerization for full isolation between websites.

Regarding security, I found BitNinja very impressive, especially since they comply with standards like AICPA, GDPR, and CCPA, which is a big deal for me.

Here are a few questions I'd like to ask before making my final decision. Thanks a lot in advance!

BitNinja offers a special deal for Enhance users ($0.1 per site). But does the protection apply to the whole server, or only to individual websites? (I’m looking for server-level protection.)
I plan to use OpenLiteSpeed. Is it fully supported? And is there any conflict between OpenLiteSpeed and BitNinja?
Is there integration between Enhance, BitNinja, and Cloudflare?
Can I run Laravel websites alongside WordPress sites without problems? Does Enhance support that?

Thanks everyone! Sorry if some questions have been asked before or if I made it a bit long. I just really want to make a final decision about my future panel so I can focus on building my websites instead of constantly solving panel issues and switching panel !

twest

Enhance doesn't use docker containerization anymore.

You should ask bitninja about pricing/features, this isn't the right forum for that.

OLS is pretty well supported, but it has issues, you should search the forum and read the threads, many recent threads will get you up to speed on OLS limitations. ELS is really good.

Theres limited integration with enhance/cloudflare, it doesn't work the way you would hope, it basically just syncs whatever dns records you put it enhance to overwrite whatever is at cloud flare and that's all - manual setup on per site basis, no automatic anything.

You can run any kind of apps. Autoinstaller is limited, but you can easily manually install anything.

siimo

twest So after removing the container system, Enhance works just like other panels ?

Kosta

siimo No enhance is unique hosting panel system. Try it, won’t hurt you.
And consider cpfence for security.

twest

siimo it still has containerization using namespaces and cgroups, so there's a layer of isolation between "accounts". Dropping docker helped reduce the resource footprint of enhance and made it easier for them to integrate with other services, so it's largely seen as a positive move - although one that took half a year of dedicated dev time and hugely set back general dev of anything else. Theres other positives/negatives with that change, such as without docker managing services you would now need to use systemd overrides to recover crashed services, for example.

If you have good sysadmin chops then you should be fine. If you just need something you can click buttons, check back in a year or two.