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I recently moved to HestiaCP from VestaCP because VestaCP stalled on updates and progress.

HestiaCP is a fork of VestaCP and gives you a clean panel, sane defaults, and a straightforward path to mail, SSL, and web services without piecing everything together manually. I use it for my personal web server and side projects — it’s cheaper to run this way, and I typically spin up Linux VMs on DigitalOcean.

These are the standard steps I follow to get the control panel up and running.

Spin up a latest Ubuntu or Debian based VM or Droplet

Read supported versions and system requirements: https://hestiacp.com/docs/introduction/getting-started.html

Locale setup

locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Install HestiaCP using Standard Script

https://hestiacp.com/docs/introduction/getting-started.html

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/release/install/hst-install.sh

# If the download fails due to an SSL validation error
apt-get update && apt-get install ca-certificates

bash hst-install.sh

Change the panel port to 2083 to support Cloudflare DNS proxy

Method 1

cd /usr/local/hestia/nginx/conf/

Method 2

v-change-sys-port 2083

Add cert to admin user for Cloudflare SSL Strict Mode to work

Run the following command as root user.

v-add-letsencrypt-host

Notes

  • If you are using DigitalOcean and your DNS points to a Floating IP, resolution won’t work.

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