When using a server, we sometimes need a convenient tool to manage the server, such as a server management panel. I believe many people will mention the Baota panel. Baota has been around for quite a long time, and it does make server management simple and easy to use. However, the potential backdoors and censorship issues behind it may be difficult for many users to tolerate.
Later, a server management panel that can compete with it appeared: 1Panel. It's good, open-source, free, and without backdoors. However, the protagonist we are introducing today is not it. 1Panel is indeed good, but its application containerized installation, while secure and fast, may not be favored by some users. This also means it may consume more server resources. So today we introduce another panel with many similarities to the Baota panel: MDServer-Web.
So how similar is it to the Baota panel? Let's take a look at the example image provided by the official website:
In short, we can see that it looks very similar, maybe even ninety percent alike 😅
However, just looking alike doesn't prove anything, but MDServer-Web is also very powerful. It supports panel bookmarking, website subdirectory binding, website backup, automatic optimization, plugin management, and supports OpenResty (a high-performance web platform based on Nginx and Lua, compatible with standard Nginx core, and Nginx usage), PHP[52-81], MySQL, MongoDB, Memcached, Redis, etc. Online SSH is also available.
It can be said that it supports many functions that Baota supports. If you don't want to use the Baota panel but still want the same user experience, you can definitely give it a try. The author also promises: no selling, no monitoring (except for statistical use), and definitely no virus injection. So we can safely try it out.
Installation#
Installation is very simple. We can quickly install it by executing the following script on the server command line.
Domestic Server#
curl --insecure -fsSL https://fastly.jsdelivr.net/gh/midoks/mdserver-web@latest/scripts/install.sh | bash
Overseas Server#
curl --insecure -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/midoks/mdserver-web/master/scripts/install.sh | bash
After waiting for the installation to complete, the command line will display panel usage information, such as the panel port, username, and password.
By specifying the port, username, password, etc., you can access the server panel for server management.