The free hosting panel built for multi-server fleets.
Provision, manage, and monitor every website, database, mailbox, and DNS zone across your entire fleet from one place. One Primary panel, any number of workload hosts, with no per-server logins and no hidden licensing tiers.
Run a complete first-party stack, or orchestrate the engines you already know.
Quickstart
Up and running in one command
Install the panel on a fresh Alpine Linux host, then open the Control Panel.
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Why Unicorn
Built around the way real fleets work
The older panels were built for one box and grew sideways from there. These are the areas where that shows, and where Unicorn Panel was designed differently from day one.
Multi-server from day one
Primary ↔ Secondary is the foundation, not a bolt-on. Every host is a first-class object the panel can provision, monitor, and proxy into.
A complete first-party stack
Sleipnir web server, Hermes mail, Mimir SQL, Heimdall DNS: run your whole fleet without a single third-party daemon. The familiar engines stay supported too.
A container per site, by default
Every site runs in its own container, with its own user, its own ports, and its own limits. One site cannot starve or compromise another.
PHP 5.6 → 8.5, per site
Twelve major versions, changed per site whenever you like. Legacy WordPress and Magento installs are not forced to upgrade just to use the panel.
Backups that match the model
Websites, databases, mailboxes, and panel config back up separately, and restore separately: a single file, a single table, or one mail folder, with mail merged rather than overwritten.
White-label that works
Resellers get their own panel domain, branding, and SMTP for transactional mail. Their customers never see the upstream operator.
Everything in one panel
Features by category
Eight areas, all fleet-aware, all driven by the same REST API the panel uses.
Websites
Provisioning wizard, per-site engine + PHP version, automatic Let’s Encrypt SSL, cross-server creation.
Learn moreDatabases
MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Mimir. Users per database, per-database query graphs, import and export with progress.
Learn moreHermes mail suite: IMAP/SMTP, DKIM/SPF/DMARC, spam + virus, sieve, Roundcube webmail.
Learn moreDNS
Built-in Heimdall authoritative DNS, multi-host, auto A-records on site creation, optional DNSSEC.
Learn moreBackups
Per-resource layout, selective restore down to a file, a table, or a mail folder, and backups that can live on another server.
Learn moreFleet management
Add secondaries with one command, per-host roles, live health, cross-server admin-tool proxy.
Learn moreSecurity
A container per site, Unicorn Shield, fleet-wide malware scanning, a firewall with guard rails, passkey sign-in.
Learn moreCLI & API
A documented REST API with per-account keys, and one call reaches any server in the fleet. Nothing behind a premium tier.
Learn moreThe Unicorn product family
One vendor for the panel and the whole runtime
Unicorn Panel ships its own first-party implementations of every core hosting service, branded under a mythology theme. Each is built to integrate with the panel: uniform logging, metrics, config, and restart semantics.
Sleipnir Web server
Unicorn Panel’s own in-house web server, shipping as part of the panel. NGINX, Apache, and OpenLiteSpeed remain fully supported alternatives.
Learn moreHermes Mail suite
SMTP, IMAP, sieve, DKIM, spam and virus filtering, plus bundled Roundcube webmail. Every reseller can serve mail under their own hostname.
Learn moreMimir SQL server
A lighter in-house SQL server and admin UI. MariaDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL co-exist on the same host with non-conflicting ports.
Learn moreHeimdall Authoritative DNS
In-house authoritative DNS with multi-host replication, so customers get real authoritative answers from geographically diverse hosts.
Learn moreArchitecture
Treat the cluster as one machine
One small daemon runs on every host, and the Primary keeps mirroring the whole fleet, with no central database to scale.
Primary
Secondaries (workload hosts)
No central database. No usage tracking.
- One small daemon per host does the privileged work, so the panel itself never needs the run of the machine.
- Each host keeps its own state and the Primary mirrors it, so there is no shared database in the middle.
- Resellers get their own slice of the fleet, and their customers only ever see their own sites.
- Built on Alpine Linux + Podman, cross-compiled for amd64 and arm64. ARM hosts are first-class.
For resellers
A branded panel for every client you sell to
Resellers get their own panel domain, logo, colors, and favicon, plus their own mail hostname and their own SMTP, so everything their customers see is theirs. Anything they have not customized falls back to your defaults rather than breaking.
- Three-tier model: operator → reseller → customer
- Per-account branding and per-account SMTP
- Customers see only the sites you list for them
- Outgoing mail renders with the recipient’s brand
Run your fleet from one panel.
Self-hosted. Multi-server. No usage telemetry, no hidden tiers.