A complete cPanel, Plesk & DirectAdmin alternative โ one tiny self-contained binary, unlimited accounts, six switchable UI shells. No license fees, no per-account pricing, no phone-home. Ever.
curl -sSL https://install.safeguardpanel.ca/install.sh | sudo bash
The honest comparison
The big panels meter, tier, and bill per account. SafeGuard ships every feature, for unlimited accounts, on every server you own.
| Price | $0 | Paid license | Paid license | Paid license |
| Per-account pricing | None | Yes | Tiered | Tiered |
| Every feature included | โ | Locked tiers | Paid add-ons | Tiered |
| Unlimited accounts | โ | $ / account | Plan-limited | Plan-limited |
| Switchable UI shells | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Idle RAM footprint | ~67 MB | Heavy | Heavy | Heavy |
| Minimum RAM | 1 GB | 2 GB | 1 GB | 4 GB +swap |
| No phone-home / no ads | โ | โ | โ | โ |
| One-command migrate-in | from 10 panels | โ | โ | โ |
The receipts
Real numbers โ the panel's own footprint, and what the others bill you for every server, every year.
Batteries included
Provision a site in seconds โ system user, document root, vhost, DNS zone and TLS, all automatic.
Add a domain and get a real authoritative BIND zone, vhost, and docroot โ instantly. Subdomains, redirects, pointers.
Auto Let's Encrypt, wildcard via DNS-01, or paste your own cert. The box terminates HTTPS itself โ no proxy tricks.
Edit, upload, compress, extract and search โ kernel-jailed to each account, with per-site quick access.
Email isn't run inside the panel โ it's a managed integration (SafeGuard Mail): mailboxes, forwarders, autoresponders and SPF/DKIM/DMARC, provisioned per domain right from the panel.
MariaDB & PostgreSQL with one-click users, remote-access control, and a built-in web admin.
Encrypted, scheduled, off-site capable โ with point-in-time restore and a self-healing database.
One-click installs, staging, cloning, auto-updates and a hardening pass for the apps people actually run.
A Wix-class drag-and-drop builder baked right in โ publish a site without leaving the panel.
Privilege-separated root worker, openat2 jails, CSF firewall, 2FA, and a one-click GPG-verified updater.
Six looks, one panel
Switch the whole control panel between six built-in shells โ cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, HestiaCP, ISPConfig & DirectAdmin Standard. Click one to see it. (cPanel ships as the default.)

Pricing
Fresh AlmaLinux / Rocky / CloudLinux 9 box โ a working control panel. One command, GPG-verified.
curl -sSL https://install.safeguardpanel.ca/install.sh | sudo bash