RootManage is automatic server management with every tool in one place. The tools run by themselves, and our engineers handle everything else, and every emergency, by hand. Pick an operating system or an application below to see how it works for yours. If it is not listed, ask: we will tell you honestly whether we can take it on.
Health, metrics, uptime, backups, guard, cleaning and audits run by themselves on a schedule, all from one dashboard.
Everything the tools do not cover, such as fixes, tuning, migrations and upgrades, is done by our engineers by hand.
A hacked site, an outage or a failed update is handled by a person, who investigates and fixes it.
Ubuntu, Debian and openSUSE or SUSE Linux Enterprise.
Ubuntu is the most common choice for new VPS and cloud servers, and its release rhythm means something always needs…
What we doDebian is prized for stability, which is exactly why servers on it get forgotten: the system runs for years, then a…
What we doopenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise are popular in Europe and on SAP and enterprise workloads, and they work…
What we doAlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CloudLinux, RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux and Fedora.
AlmaLinux is the community successor many hosting teams moved to after CentOS Linux ended, and it is a supported…
What we doRocky Linux was started by the original CentOS founder as a free RHEL-compatible system, and it is a supported OS…
What we doCloudLinux is built for shared hosting: every account is held inside its own resource limits, so one noisy website…
What we doRed Hat Enterprise Linux is chosen when a business wants a supported, certified platform.
What we doCentOS Linux 7 and 8 no longer receive security updates, but a lot of production servers are still running them.
What we doOracle Linux is RHEL-compatible and free to download, and it is common on servers that run Oracle Database or Oracle…
What we doFedora Server follows a new release roughly every six months and each one is supported for about a year, so a server…
What we doWindows Server over RDP, FreeBSD with ZFS and jails, and Amazon Linux on AWS.
Amazon Linux is the default on many EC2 instances, and it has its own life cycle: Amazon Linux 2 is moving out of…
What we doWindows Servers run business software, IIS sites, SQL Server and file shares, and they are a favourite target…
What we doFreeBSD is trusted for storage servers, firewalls and network appliances because of ZFS, jails and the pf firewall.
What we docPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin and the free panels: updates, hardening, migrations and day to day support.
cPanel and WHM run a large share of the world's shared and reseller hosting, and a server like that is never…
What we doPlesk is popular with agencies because it runs on both Linux and Windows and has a friendly interface for WordPress…
What we doDirectAdmin is a light, fast control panel that many small hosts choose because it uses fewer resources than the big…
What we doCyberPanel is a free control panel built on OpenLiteSpeed, popular for fast WordPress hosting on a small budget.
What we doWebmin and Virtualmin give you a full hosting panel from open source tools, with a lot of control.
What we doHestiaCP is a lightweight open-source panel for Debian and Ubuntu, and a common free replacement for older panels.
What we doCloudPanel is a modern, free panel aimed at PHP, Node.js and Python sites with Nginx, and it is popular for…
What we doaaPanel is a free panel with a one-click app store, which makes it easy to start and easy to leave exposed: a public…
What we doISPConfig is an open-source panel that can run web, mail and DNS across several servers from one interface, which…
What we doControl Web Panel is a free panel for AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux that many small hosts pick instead of cPanel.
What we doFroxlor is a small PHP-based panel for Debian and Ubuntu servers that manages customers, domains, mail and FTP with…
What we doNginx, Apache, LiteSpeed and the proxies in front of your sites: tuning, TLS and fixing 502 and 504 errors.
Nginx serves a very large share of busy websites and acts as a reverse proxy in front of PHP, Node.js and Python apps.
What we doApache is still the web server behind most cPanel and shared hosting, and its flexibility through modules and…
What we doLiteSpeed is a drop-in replacement for Apache that is known for speed, especially with the LSCache plugin on…
What we doOpenLiteSpeed is the free edition of LiteSpeed and powers panels such as CyberPanel and several WordPress stacks.
What we doHAProxy sits in front of several servers, spreads traffic and takes failed ones out of rotation.
What we doCaddy gets HTTPS certificates by itself and has a short, readable configuration, which makes it a favourite for…
What we doVarnish is a caching proxy that can serve cached pages in microseconds, which makes it valuable for news, WordPress…
What we doTraefik discovers Docker containers and routes traffic to them from labels, with automatic HTTPS.
What we doNginx Proxy Manager gives a web interface to Nginx with built-in Let's Encrypt, popular on small Docker servers.
What we doSquid is a caching and forwarding proxy used to control web access in offices and to cache downloads.
What we doMySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis and search: tuning, replication, backups and recovery.
MySQL sits behind most websites and many business apps.
What we doMariaDB is the default database on many Linux distributions and on cPanel servers.
What we doPostgreSQL is a favourite for serious applications, and it rewards careful care: autovacuum that cannot keep up, an…
What we doMongoDB has a history of exposed databases because early versions started without authentication, and exposed…
What we doRedis is used for caches, sessions and queues, and it is fast because it lives in memory, which is also how it…
What we doMemcached is a simple in-memory cache that takes load off databases, used by PHP sites and many older apps.
What we doElasticsearch and OpenSearch power site search, logging and analytics, and they are demanding about memory, disk and…
What we doClickHouse is a very fast column database for analytics and logs, and it behaves differently from MySQL or…
What we doInfluxDB stores time-series data such as metrics and sensor readings, and it grows continuously unless retention is…
What we doRabbitMQ passes messages between your applications, and when it slows or blocks, everything depending on it stops.
What we doKafka moves large streams of events between systems, and its operation is about disks, partitions and consumers…
What we doPHP, Node.js, Python, Laravel, Java, .NET and Rails in production: processes, deploys and security.
PHP runs most of the web, and the server side of it is PHP-FPM: pools, workers, memory limits and OPcache.
What we doNode.js apps need more server care than people expect: a process manager so they restart, a reverse proxy in front…
What we doPython web apps run behind a WSGI or ASGI server such as Gunicorn or uWSGI, with Nginx in front, a database and…
What we doLaravel apps need more than a PHP server: a queue worker that stays running, the scheduler cron, correct storage…
What we doJava applications on Tomcat, Spring Boot or JBoss behave very differently from PHP: they are long-running JVMs where…
What we doIIS hosts ASP.NET, .NET and classic ASP applications on Windows Server, and the problems are familiar: an…
What we doRails apps depend on a Ruby version, a Puma web server, a database and background workers such as Sidekiq, and they…
What we doGo programs compile to a single binary, which makes them easy to deploy and easy to forget.
What we doA Next.js site in production is a Node.js process with its own caching and an image optimiser that can use a lot of…
What we doASP.NET Core apps run well on Linux behind Nginx, with Kestrel as the app server and systemd keeping it alive.
What we doWordPress, WooCommerce, Magento and other CMS and shop platforms: speed, security, backups and cleanup.
WordPress powers a huge share of websites, which makes it the most attacked one too.
What we doA WooCommerce store punishes a slow server directly: carts and checkouts cannot be cached the way blog pages can…
What we doMagento is heavy: PHP-FPM, MySQL, Redis, OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, Varnish and a long list of cron jobs all have…
What we doPrestaShop stores depend on a specific range of PHP versions and many third-party modules, so an update to either…
What we doOpenCart is a lightweight store engine that runs well on modest servers, and it is a common target for injected…
What we doJoomla sites are often older and carry many extensions, so they fall behind on both PHP and security fixes.
What we doDrupal sites run important portals and publishing platforms, and they need timely security releases, a tuned…
What we doGhost is a fast publishing platform that runs on Node.js with MySQL.
What we doA Moodle site has predictable busy days: a quiz starts, hundreds of students log in and the server slows.
What we doMediaWiki runs wikis from small team knowledge bases to very large sites, and it depends on caching and the job…
What we doTYPO3 is used for larger business and institutional websites, and it publishes security bulletins that need prompt…
What we doMatomo is a self-hosted web analytics tool, and on a busy site its database grows fast and its reports depend on a…
What we donopCommerce is an e-commerce platform built on ASP.NET Core, hosted on Windows with IIS or on Linux.
What we doStrapi is a Node.js headless CMS that feeds content to websites and apps.
What we doDocker, Kubernetes, Git servers, CI and automation: updates, backups and hardening.
Containers make deployment repeatable, and they hide a lot of ordinary server work: volumes to back up, images to…
What we doKubernetes solves large problems and creates its own: version upgrades every few months, ingress and certificate…
What we doPortainer gives a team a web interface for Docker and Kubernetes, which is convenient and risky: an exposed…
What we doJenkins servers collect plugins, credentials and build agents over the years, and an old one is a serious security…
What we doA self-hosted GitLab holds your source code, issues and pipelines, so it must be upgraded on time, backed up and…
What we doGitea is a light self-hosted Git service that runs on very small servers, popular with teams that want code in their…
What we doWhen you have many servers, manual changes drift and nobody knows what is configured where.
What we doTerraform describes servers, networks and cloud services in code, so changes are reviewed and repeatable.
What we doHarbor is a private container registry with access control and vulnerability scanning.
What we doSonarQube analyses code quality and security for your repositories, and it needs a proper server: Java with enough…
What we doNexus Repository stores your build artefacts and proxies public registries such as npm and Maven Central, which…
What we doVault stores secrets such as passwords and API keys, so it must be both secure and available.
What we dok3s is a small Kubernetes distribution that runs on modest servers and edge devices, popular for small clusters that…
What we doExim, Postfix, Zimbra and Mailcow: queues, authentication records, reputation and migrations.
Exim is the mail transfer agent behind cPanel, and a hosting server lives or dies by its mail reputation.
What we doPostfix and Dovecot are the building blocks of many self-hosted mail servers, and running one well is a skill…
What we doZimbra is a full email and collaboration server with webmail, calendar and shared folders.
What we doMailcow bundles Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd and a web interface into a Docker stack, which makes a modern self-hosted…
What we doRoundcube is the webmail interface behind many hosting panels and mail servers.
What we doiRedMail installs a complete mail server in one go: Postfix, Dovecot, spam and virus filtering, Roundcube and an…
What we doSpam filters are only as good as their tuning: scores that are too strict block real customers, too loose lets spam…
What we doCSF, Imunify360, Fail2Ban, ClamAV and ModSecurity: tuned so they stop attacks and not customers.
ConfigServer Security and Firewall is the firewall most cPanel servers use, with LFD watching for login failures and…
What we doImunify360 combines malware scanning, a firewall and web application protection for shared hosting servers.
What we doFail2Ban reads logs and bans addresses that keep failing to log in.
What we doClamAV is an open-source antivirus engine used for mail scanning and file scans on Linux servers.
What we doA web application firewall blocks common attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting before they reach…
What we doAn expired or misconfigured certificate puts a browser warning in front of every visitor, and automatic renewal…
What we doSSH is the front door to every Linux server, and it is attacked all day by automated scripts.
What we doWazuh collects security events from your servers and raises alerts for suspicious behaviour, file changes and…
What we doCrowdSec reads your logs, spots attacks and blocks addresses, and shares and receives block lists from a community…
What we doLynis scores a Linux server against hardening best practices and lists what to change, and rkhunter looks for…
What we doSELinux and AppArmor confine programs so a compromised web server cannot read everything on the system.
What we doJetBackup, restic, Zabbix, Prometheus and uptime tools: backups that restore and alerts that matter.
JetBackup is a popular backup system for hosting panels with a customer-facing restore interface.
What we doRestic and BorgBackup make encrypted, deduplicated backups that are efficient over slow links, and both are…
What we doZabbix monitors servers, networks and applications at scale, and its power comes with setup work: agents on every…
What we doPrometheus collects metrics and Grafana shows them, a combination teams build to see what their servers and…
What we doNetdata gives per-second dashboards of CPU, memory, disk, network and many applications with almost no setup.
What we doUptime Kuma is a self-hosted uptime monitor with notifications and public status pages.
What we doNagios and Icinga monitor servers and services with checks written over many years.
What we doCheckmk discovers services on your servers automatically and monitors them with ready-made checks, which makes it…
What we doGraylog collects logs from your servers into one searchable place, which is invaluable during an incident.
What we dorsync and rclone are the workhorses behind many simple backups: copy files to another server, or to S3 or cloud…
What we doNextcloud, n8n, Odoo, ERPNext and password managers on servers you own.
Nextcloud is a private file sync and collaboration server.
What we don8n runs automated workflows that connect your tools, and a self-hosted instance often holds credentials to many…
What we doOdoo runs accounting, sales, inventory and more for a business, so downtime is expensive.
What we doERPNext is a popular open-source ERP in India, built on the Frappe framework and managed with bench.
What we doA self-hosted password manager holds the keys to everything, so the server must be secure, updated and backed up…
What we doMattermost is a self-hosted team chat many companies choose to keep conversations on their own servers.
What we doRocket.Chat is a team chat and customer messaging platform that needs MongoDB with a replica set and enough memory.
What we doJitsi Meet runs video meetings on your own server.
What we doBigBlueButton is a web conferencing system built for online classes, and it is demanding: it needs a supported…
What we doA VoIP server on the internet is attacked constantly, and a compromised Asterisk can run up large call bills in hours.
What we doSuiteCRM is an open-source CRM that keeps your customers and deals in one place.
What we doMetabase gives your team dashboards on top of your databases.
What we doProxmox, KVM, VMware, firewalls, VPNs and storage clusters: hosts, backups and secure remote access.
WireGuard is a fast, simple VPN and a good way to keep admin ports (SSH, RDP, panels) off the public internet.
What we doOpenVPN is the long-standing VPN used by many companies for remote access and site-to-site links.
What we doProxmox VE runs virtual machines and containers on your own hardware, and clusters, ZFS or Ceph storage and backups…
What we doKVM with libvirt turns a Linux server into a hypervisor, a common base for private clouds and small hosting…
What we dopfSense and OPNsense are firewall and router systems that sit at the edge of an office or data centre.
What we doESXi runs virtual machines on your own hardware, and the work is in keeping hosts patched, datastores healthy…
What we doHyper-V is the virtualisation role built into Windows Server, common in offices that already run Windows.
What we doMinIO gives you S3-compatible storage on your own servers, used for backups, uploads and data pipelines.
What we doCeph provides block, file and object storage across many servers, with data copied between disks so a failure does…
What we doFile servers hold the documents everyone depends on, and their problems are usually permissions and performance.
What we doWHMCS, Softaculous, DNS servers, Cloudflare and FTP: the tools around a hosting server.
WHMCS runs the billing, orders and support of many hosting businesses, so an outage or a breach touches money and…
What we doSoftaculous is the one-click installer that lets hosting customers set up WordPress and hundreds of other scripts.
What we dophpMyAdmin is the web tool most people use to look at a MySQL database, and an exposed or outdated copy is a…
What we doCloudflare sits in front of a website for DNS, caching and filtering, and most of its problems appear where it meets…
What we doRunning your own DNS means your sites, mail and everything else depend on it, and a mistake can take them all…
What we doPlain FTP sends passwords in the open and is still used on many servers.
What we doSQL Server, Active Directory, Exchange and Remote Desktop Services, managed over RDP.
SQL Server often sits behind accounting and business applications, so an unnoticed full disk or missing backup can…
What we doActive Directory is the login and policy system for a Windows network.
What we doOn-premises Exchange has been the target of several serious attacks, so applying its security updates quickly is not…
What we doRemote Desktop Services lets many people work on a shared Windows server, and it is also one of the most attacked…
What we doWe manage servers over SSH, WHM and RDP, so most software can be looked after. Tell us what you run and we will say honestly whether we can take it on. See also Linux server management, cPanel management and malware cleanup.