Why LiteSoup?

Why Another Control Panel?

Most control panels fall into two camps: expensive and heavy (cPanel, Plesk) or proprietary with vendor lock-in (RunCloud). LiteSoup is neither. It is a self-hosted, MIT-licensed alternative that gives you full control without monthly fees per server.

Open Source & Self-Hosted

LiteSoup is 100% open-source under the permissive MIT License. You own your infrastructure and your data. No vendor lock-in, no surprise price hikes, no forced migrations. Deploy on your own servers, modify the code, and scale as you see fit.

Per-Site Flexibility

Every site gets its own PHP version (8.2, 8.3, or 8.4), its own PHP-FPM pool tier (small, medium, large, or custom), its own system user, and its own database. This means one server can host a legacy WordPress site on PHP 8.2 and a modern Laravel app on PHP 8.4 without conflict.

Lightweight Architecture

Unlike control panels built on PHP (which add overhead to every request), LiteSoup uses a lightweight agent written in Go or Bun. The agent communicates with the dashboard via a simple HTTP protocol: POST /exec with { command, params } returns an SSE stream. No database agents, no polling, no bloat.

Dashboard (Bun/Hono) ──POST /exec──► Agent (Go/Bun) ──shell──► Bash scripts
       │                                      │
       ▼                                      ▼
   SQLite DB                            /usr/lib/litesoup/
   (local state)                        Server stack

No Vendor Lock-In

Your servers run standard Ubuntu 24.04 with Apache, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB. If you decide to stop using LiteSoup, your sites keep working. There is no proprietary format, no encrypted configs, no dependency on a remote API. The agent is a binary you can remove at any time.