Installing Free Web Control Panel OpenPanel on Rackspace Cloud

Installing Free Web Control Panel OpenPanel on Rackspace Cloud is a detailed step by step video guide to demonstrate how easy it is to get a smart control panel. OpenPanel is a free cPanel like Control Panel that can be installed on unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Server to add / remove domains, add FTP and other things from a GUI.

 

Introduction to Installing Free Web Control Panel OpenPanel on Rackspace Cloud

 

Installing Free Web Control Panel OpenPanel on Rackspace Cloud Server was described before here as textual guide. One visitor gave the feedback that cPanel is not getting installed anymore now. Next option is Parallals Plesk. Plesk is suggested by Rackspace but both of these are not free. When a good option is available now, so it is obvious that we will opt for reducing the cost per month. Installing Free Web Control Panel OpenPanel is recommended by us for testing by you first – it will cost you few cents to run an unmanaged server to test it. Now OpenPanel has support for loadbalancers too. OpenPanel is not much highlighted than it should be. Official Webpage of OpenPanel is :

 

 

Installing Free Web Control Panel OpenPanel on Rackspace Cloud Server

 

We have used OS X and iTerm2 for Installing Free Web Control Panel OpenPanel on Rackspace Cloud Server Guide. During the previous textual guide preparation, there was only the old control panel. So the screenshots on that webpage is showing of older one. Old control panel still works, the cost of that set of server is lesser too. We have shown this guide with next generation / newer control panel. Also, on that guide we used Windows OS and PuTTY. The commands remained the same. Here is the video :

 

 

The way we have shown there should be no problem even for the new users. They have documentation, wiki too for advanced settings on their official website.