Today is a day we have been working toward for a long time.
adminbolt is officially live in production.
For the hosting providers, agencies, and developers who have been following along: thank you. You asked good questions, pushed back on the right things, and shaped what we built. This launch belongs to you as much as it does to us.
For everyone discovering adminbolt for the first time: welcome.
What adminbolt is
adminbolt is a hosting control panel. But describing it that way is a bit like describing a smartphone as a telephone. Technically accurate, completely misses the point.
What we actually built is a platform that independent hosting companies can compete on. Not just manage servers with, but build a real product on top of. Something with a flat pricing model that does not penalize growth, an API-first architecture that makes automation genuinely possible from day one, and a foundation we are actively evolving.
We started building adminbolt because we believed the hosting control panel market was stuck. Not broken. The incumbents work, and they have powered the internet for two decades. But they were built for a different era. The pricing models, the architectures, the interfaces were optimized for a world that no longer exists.
Independent hosting companies deserve a platform that helps them win on product, not one that makes winning harder every time they grow.
Where we are going
adminbolt ships today as a complete, production-ready hosting control panel. But the version we are most excited about is the one we are building toward.
We think the next major shift in the hosting industry will be AI, not as a feature, but as a fundamental change in what a hosting platform can do:
- Hosting that detects and resolves problems before customers notice them
- Infrastructure that recommends the right resources at the right time
- Environments provisioned from a single instruction
- A platform that gets smarter with every server in the fleet
The large hosting companies are already building this internally. We are building it as a platform, so every hosting company using adminbolt can compete with that capability rather than watch it pull further away.
We will move faster on AI than any legacy platform can. Clean architecture, no technical debt, a team with nothing to protect but the product.
As AI capabilities ship, they go to every plan, every customer, automatically. No tiers, no add-ons, no gating.
What is available today
adminbolt ships on AlmaLinux 9 and installs in under five minutes. Everything below is included in every plan:
- Multi-server dashboard - Your entire fleet from a single login. Real-time load, RAM, and disk monitoring across all machines.
- Web server management - Per-site PHP runtime switching, resource isolation, WordPress-ready out of the box.
- Email infrastructure - Full mail server, spam filtering, webmail, automatic DKIM/SPF setup. No extra license.
- Security stack - WAF, malware scanning, brute-force protection, automatic SSL via Let's Encrypt.
- REST API - Every panel action available via API. WHMCS integration live. Full automation from day one.
- Ecosystem compatibility - LiteSpeed, CloudLinux, Imunify, Softaculous, JetBackup, Let's Encrypt. No rip-and-replace required.
adminbolt uses up to 60% less RAM than traditional panels. More resources for your customers' sites, less overhead for your infrastructure.
Pricing
We built adminbolt on a flat per-server pricing model. No per-account fees. No feature tiers. Your bill does not grow because your customer base grows.
| Plan | Price | For |
|---|---|---|
| VPS / Cloud | $20 / mo | Virtual machines and cloud instances |
| Bare Metal | $45 / mo | Physical dedicated servers |
| Standalone | $7 / mo | Single server, up to 2 accounts |
Every plan includes the full feature set. 30-day free trial. No credit card required.
Partner program
We are running a partner program for hosting companies who want to grow with adminbolt. Partners get wholesale pricing with volume discounts from 5 servers, direct access to our engineering team, and a genuine voice in what we build next.
Hosting companies that join early are not just customers. They are shaping the roadmap. If you are running a hosting business and see something that could change the way you operate, we want to hear about it before we write the spec.
Reach out at adminbolt.com/contact to apply.
Thank you for being here on day one
Launching a product is a strange feeling. You spend months believing in something privately, and then you make it public, and suddenly other people's reality gets to weigh in.
We are ready for that. We know adminbolt is not finished. Every good product never is. What we are confident about is the direction: a hosting platform that gets faster, smarter, and more capable every month, and does it for the hosting providers who deserve a real partner, not just a vendor.
If you try adminbolt and it is not what you needed, tell us. That feedback is how this gets better.
If it is what you needed, tell someone else.