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webmin/webmin

Powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/webmin/webmin · homepage · HTML · BSD-3-Clause (permissive) 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

Full methodology

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

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Member repositories

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