Websites & domains
Create a site and WebDeck does the lot: virtual host, document root, PHP pool, DNS zone, SSL certificate. Then hands you the tools to run it.
- One-step site creation — vhost, docroot, DNS and SSL together
- Apache, nginx or OpenLiteSpeed — switch stack without rebuilding
- Free Let's Encrypt SSL, issued and renewed automatically
- Force HTTPS per site, one toggle
- URL redirects — 301s and 302s, managed from the panel
- Page caching for an instant speed-up
- Site repair — rebuild a broken site's config in one click
- Add-on domains and subdomains
48 one-click apps
Not a token WordPress button. Thirty-eight applications, each installed properly — database created, permissions set, config written, SSL live from the first request. Apps that need Composer get their dependencies installed too, so they actually run.
- WordPress — plus a WooCommerce shop variant
- osTicket, GLPI — helpdesk and IT asset management
- SuiteCRM, Dolibarr, Invoice Ninja, Akaunting — CRM and billing
- Moodle — a full learning management system
- Nextcloud — private file sync and share
- Magento, PrestaShop, OpenCart — e-commerce
- Snipe-IT, Kimai, HumHub, Monica — Composer handled for you
- Customers install them themselves — no ticket for you
- See all 38 apps →
WordPress manager
WebDeck finds every WordPress install on a site — even ones in subfolders that it didn't create — and tells you which ones need attention.
- Auto-detects WordPress anywhere in the document root
- Finds installs in subfolders, not just the root
- Version checking — spot the ones that are out of date
- Reads wp-config to link each install to its database
- One-click install with database and SSL ready
- WooCommerce variant — shop-ready in a single step
File manager
A real file manager in the browser. Fix a config typo, upload a logo, check permissions — without opening a terminal or making your customer install FileZilla.
- Browse the whole site with a proper tree view
- Edit files in the browser — syntax-friendly, saves instantly
- Upload and download — drag files straight in
- Create folders, rename, move, delete
- Change permissions (chmod) from the interface
- Scoped safely — a customer can't escape their own directory
- FTP accounts too, if they'd rather use a client
Website analytics
Built from the server's own access logs — so it works on every site with no tracking script, no third-party JavaScript, and nothing added to the page.
- Visits and hits over time
- Top pages — what people actually read
- Referrers — where the traffic came from
- Status codes — spot 404s and 500s before customers report them
- No tracking scripts — nothing added to the site
- No third parties — the data never leaves the server
- Privacy-friendly by design, not as an afterthought
- Or install Matomo in one click if they want more
Logs, in the panel
Stop SSHing in to read a log file. Access and error logs for every site, plus mail and panel logs, right where you're already working.
- Access logs per site — see every request
- Error logs per site — the PHP errors your customer is hitting
- Mail logs — trace a message that didn't arrive
- Panel logs — what WebDeck itself has been doing
- Tail the last N lines without loading a 2 GB file
- Audit log — every administrative action, who and when
Cron jobs, made easy
Scheduled tasks without the cron syntax anxiety. Common schedules are presets; the fields are there if you know what you're doing.
- Create and edit scheduled tasks from the panel
- Presets for the common schedules — hourly, nightly, weekly
- Full cron syntax available if you want it
- Per site — each customer manages their own
- Delete a job without editing a crontab by hand
- WordPress cron — set up a real one so scheduled posts actually publish
Email that lands in the inbox
A full mail server — Postfix and Dovecot — with the deliverability records set up for you. Most panels leave DKIM as homework. WebDeck does it on day one, then checks its own work.
- Unlimited mailboxes, aliases, forwarders, catch-alls
- DKIM signing — keys generated, DNS published automatically
- SPF and DMARC records created for you
- Deliverability checker — tells you what's wrong before Gmail does
- Auto-deliverability — fixes common problems on its own
- Mail self-test — proves the whole chain works, end to end
- Webmail built in — customers log in from the panel
- Autoconfig — Outlook and Thunderbird set themselves up
- SMTP relay support, and TLS hardening in one click
Backups & disaster recovery
Not "we tar your files up". WebDeck rebuilds an entire server onto bare metal — and tests its own backups to prove they'd actually work.
- Scheduled backups — daily, weekly, retention you choose
- Off-site — SFTP and rclone (S3, Backblaze B2, Drive and more)
- Deduplicated and encrypted — powered by restic
- Full server restore — rebuild a dead server from scratch
- Per-site restore — roll one site back, leave the rest alone
- Site snapshots — take one before you do something risky
- Customer self-restore — scoped to their own domains
- Backup self-test — an untested backup isn't a backup
Databases & phpMyAdmin
MySQL and MariaDB, with phpMyAdmin one click away and single sign-on so nobody has to remember another password.
- Create databases and users from the panel
- phpMyAdmin built in — with single sign-on
- Scoped privileges — a user per database
- Remote MySQL access control
- Included in backups — dumped and restored with the site
- Or install Adminer if that's more your thing
Authoritative DNS
Run your own nameservers with PowerDNS. Zones are created automatically when you add a site, and WebDeck watches them to make sure they stay healthy.
- Your own nameservers — ns1/ns2 on your domain
- Automatic zone creation when a site is added
- Full record editor — A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV, CAA
- DNS templates — apply a standard record set in one click
- Secondary nameservers — set one up remotely, from the panel
- DNS health monitoring — spot a nameserver drifting out of sync
- Mail records published for you — MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC
PHP, done properly
Multiple versions side by side, per-site selection, and module control that actually works on every OS and every web stack — not just Debian.
- Multiple PHP versions installed together
- Per-site version — legacy app on 7.4, new one on 8.3
- 65 modules — toggle per version, on any OS
- Per-site PHP settings — memory, upload size, execution time
- ionCube loader — one click (WHMCS and friends)
- OPcache and the performance modules
- FPM pool tuning per site for busy hosts
- Self-healing — repairs broken module config automatically
Trusted HTTPS from minute one
The bit every other panel gets wrong. A fresh WebDeck install gets a free hostname with a browser-trusted certificate — so the panel has a padlock before you've pointed a single domain at the box.
- Free hostname —
srv-a1b2c3.wd-server.co.uk, on install - Trusted certificate — fetched, installed and renewed for you
- No browser warnings on a brand-new server
- Let's Encrypt for customer sites — automatic issue and renewal
- Wildcard and multi-domain certificates supported
- Fail-safe — if anything's unreachable, the panel keeps working
Resellers & white-label
Four roles, real quotas with overselling protection, and branding that cascades — your reseller's customers see your reseller's brand, never yours.
- Admin → master reseller → reseller → user
- Packages — disk, bandwidth, sites, databases, email
- Overselling protection — can't allocate what you don't have
- White-label branding — name, logo, colours, favicon
- Branding cascades down the hierarchy automatically
- Resellers never see the server — only their own customers
- Suspend and unsuspend accounts
- WHMCS module — sell all three levels automatically
Branding & white-label
Make WebDeck yours. Your name, your logo, your colours — customers never see ours.
- Your brand name replaces WebDeck throughout the panel
- Your logo and favicon
- Your colours — match the panel to your own site
- Cascades to resellers — their customers see their brand, not yours
- Applies to the whole panel, not just a login page
- Free — white-labelling isn't a paid tier
Account isolation
Customers confined to their own files, unable to see each other, and unable to hog the box. Included — no CloudLinux licence needed.
- Automatic on every new SFTP/SSH account — no configuration
- Confined to their own website's files — can't read other customers'
- Resource limits — CPU, memory and process caps per account
- Optional process cage (bubblewrap) — hides other tenants' processes
- Isolation page — every account's status at a glance, one-click controls
- Isolate existing accounts individually, whenever you choose
- Self-healing — repairs itself if a mount or config is lost
- Existing accounts untouched — nothing changes until you say so
Security
Sensible defaults, not a checkbox exercise.
- Two-factor authentication (TOTP) on panel logins
- fail2ban — brute-force protection, managed from the panel
- Firewall management from the interface
- Login rate limiting — configurable per minute
- API keys — scoped, and lockable to a single IP
- Directory privacy — password-protect any folder
- SSH key management
- Audit log — every action, with who and when
Migrating from cPanel
Point the importer at a cPanel backup and it recreates the account properly — not a half-import that leaves you fixing things for a week.
- Reads standard cPanel archives (cpmove / full backups)
- Websites and document roots recreated
- Databases and users restored with privileges
- Email accounts and their mail
- DNS records imported
- Bulk import — move a whole server, not one account at a time
- Remote pull — fetch backups straight from the old server
- Preflight check — see what will happen before it happens
Server management & self-healing
The panel knows how the server is doing — and fixes most problems before you find out about them.
- Live CPU, memory, disk and load
- Self-healing reconcile — rebuilds vhosts, renews certs, restarts services
- Health checks — vhosts, certificates, mail delivery
- Service control — start, stop, restart from the panel
- Resource usage per account and per site
- Disk usage breakdown — find what's eating the disk
- Data inspector — look inside the panel's own database
- Self-updating — with automatic rollback if an update fails
