Introduction

Mini Panel (mpn) is a web server admin panel written in Go, shipped as a single binary. It’s built for low-spec VPS machines (starting at 1 GB RAM), without requiring containers or a separate Go runtime.

What Mini Panel manages

• Websites: PHP, Node.js, Python, static, reverse proxy — each type has its own settings tab.
• Databases: MariaDB or MySQL, each database with its own dedicated user.
• Email: Postfix + Dovecot + OpenDKIM, with per-domain webmail.
• SSL: Let’s Encrypt with automatic renewal, or your own certificate.
• Backups: nightly automatic backups, latest 7 kept, with Google Drive sync.
• Firewall: uses nftables and keeps the SSH and panel ports open in its default rules.
• Security: ModSecurity + OWASP CRS, fail2ban against password guessing.
• Monitoring: CPU, memory, disk and network in real time.

What Mini Panel is for

Mini Panel is for people who run one or a few small VPS machines themselves and want to host websites, databases and email on them without typing commands for every task. The panel handles the everyday work: creating websites, issuing SSL certificates, backups, opening firewall ports and reading logs.

Mini Panel is designed to use little memory. The panel itself needs neither MySQL nor PHP. Installation requires a VPS with at least 1 GB of RAM. Actual memory needs depend on the websites and services you run.

Architecture overview

The panel is split into two separate parts:

1. mpn-web — runs without root privileges, serves the HTTP(S) interface only.
2. mpn-root (helper) — runs as root, executes the real system commands (creating websites, installing services…).

For privileged system operations, the web interface sends a ctl.Request to the root helper. Separating privileges reduces the web process’s attack surface.

Next steps

• Install on your VPS.
• First-run setup to create the administrator account.