webmin/webmin
Powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 98
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 16.0
- age_days: 6253
- days_rel: 12
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 23
Adoption not part of the score
6027 stars · 792 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Webmin is a mature web-based control panel for administering Unix-like servers, letting users manage users, disk quotas, services, config files, and apps like Apache, BIND, MySQL, and Postfix from a browser. It is extensible via modules and themes, with related projects Virtualmin and Usermin.
Use cases
- manage a linux server from a web browser
- web-based control panel for my vps
- configure apache and mysql without editing config files
- manage users and disk quotas on a unix server
- administer dns and mail servers through a gui
- monitor and manage systemd services remotely
- set up fail2ban and firewall rules via a web ui
When to choose
- you want a browser-based GUI for full server administration on Unix-like systems
- you manage many services (Apache, BIND, Postfix, MySQL) and want one unified panel
- you need an extensible panel with custom modules and theming
- you prefer a long-established, actively maintained tool with a large install base
When to avoid
- you only use containers or Kubernetes and prefer declarative infrastructure-as-code
- you need a Windows server control panel (Webmin targets Unix-like systems)
- you want a minimal headless setup with no web-exposed admin interface
- you require modern stack tooling like Ansible or Terraform for configuration management
Facets
application · maturity stable
configuration-management monitoring developer-tools gui self-hosted self-hosted operating-systems web-development self-hosted cross-platform control-panel server-administration web-based-ui perl sysadmin virtualmin devops system-administration linux web-server
10 sources
- readme: https://github.com/webmin/webmin · fetched 2026-08-28 · 125628e1a733
- homepage: http://www.webmin.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · e6bb529e89ba
- site_page: https://webmin.com/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · f2e65175e99e
- site_page: https://webmin.com/changelog/webmin-2.653-and-usermin-2.552-released · fetched 2026-08-29 · eb2c07fdb2a0
- site_page: https://webmin.com/changelog · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6e442c4b1869
- site_page: https://webmin.com/faq · fetched 2026-08-29 · eb4f66d7d056
- site_page: https://webmin.com/changelog/webmin-2.660-and-usermin-2.560-released · fetched 2026-08-29 · 560de08f91e6
- site_page: https://webmin.com/changelog/webmin-2.652-and-usermin-2.551-released · fetched 2026-08-29 · 58c6ef3816f6
- site_page: https://webmin.com/changelog/webmin-2.651 · fetched 2026-08-29 · 5e71d1a479c2
- site_page: https://webmin.com/changelog/webmin-2.650-and-usermin-2.550-released · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4204b277e942
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| webmin/webmin | main | 99 |
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