A Technology Stack for the modern Web

Ubuntu is a secure Linux distribution and an operating system for cloud computing with OpenStack support. It has over 60000 packages and a range of hardware support like graphics drivers, printers, Bluetooth drivers. Ubuntu offers long-term support (LTS) releases every two years. The OS offers optimized kernels for AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, IBM clouds.

Debian is a popular and stable GNU/Linux distribution. The system comes with over 59000 software packages, and it’s the only distribution designed to be upgraded without re-installing.

Debian offers a wide range of architecture like ARM and MIPS and supports multiple devices like Raspberry Pi, variants of QNAP, and mobile devices.

NGINX is a high-performance edge web server with a minimal memory footprint. It is also used for reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy, and HTTP cache.

The web server is highly scalable, reliable, and can get up to ten times faster than Apache. NGINX is event-based, serving a high number of requests and concurrent connections per second.

Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its object-oriented approach allows developers to write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects.

The Python Package Index (PyPI) hosts thousands of third-party modules. The standard library and modules allow for web development, GUI, scientific & numeric computing, etc.

MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) compatible with Linux, Unix-based, macOS, and Windows platforms. It is multi-threaded for high scalability and stores records in multiple, highly codified tables for fast data retrieval. MySQL is free software available under the GNU license.

PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language to create dynamic web applications. It is used by 77.9% of websites worldwide as a server-side language.

PHP offers many frameworks such as Laravel, Symfony, Phalcon, Zend, and Yii. CloudPanel supports the latest PHP versions 7.1- 8.1 to run your PHP projects.

Redis is an open-source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker.

It supports data structures like strings, hashes, lists, sets, bitmaps, HyperLogLogs, and geospatial indexes. Redis has built-in replication, Lua scripting, LRU eviction, and on-disk persistence.

ProFTPD is a free and open-source FTP server. The ProFTPD server is configurable GPL-licensed FTP server software for Linux and Unix-based operating systems. It offers many configurable features that are not available with other FTP daemons.

Node.js is an open-source JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.

It has an asynchronous event-driven architecture for JavaScript runtime.

Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications, optimize throughput, and unify server-side and client-side scripts.

Yarn is a package managing system for JavaScript and offers a fast, reliable, and secure alternative npm client (package manager). It helps install packages more quickly and manage dependencies consistently across machines.

Varnish Cache is a caching HTTP reverse proxy that speeds up your sites with a factor of 100 - 250x. A copy of your page is stored in memory after the first time a user visits the page.

Varnish Cache is integrated into CloudPanel as a turn-key solution. Enable Varnish Cache, and your sites will fly.

The CloudPanel supports x86 and arm64 architecture for ultra-low latency and energy efficiency. It will run efficiently on any infrastructure with minimum specifications. The light-weight components provide optimal price-performance with minimal resource consumption.