Zpanel is a free good choice for the personal purpose

If you are thinking to use it as the control panel for the web hosting business, you should be careful. Zpanel is very good fairly written software, but it's pretty new software and it still has some weak points. For example the DNS manager has a very basic features at current release. Also, since the product is new, it delivers a higher risk in terms of security.

Ready to install zpanel

Let’s start the installation of Zpanel on CentOS 6x fresh server. As the fresh server, I mean the new & clean recently installed operational system.

Here are the steps to install Zpanel on CentOS 6 (CentOS 6.X):
Step 1. 
As the first step, please SSH to your server as root user.
Step 2.
As t second step, please execute the command below to create the directory where Zpanel will be installed:
#mkdir /etc/zpanel
Step 3.
As the third step, please download the installation package:
# wget http://blog.fluidhosting.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/zpanel-install-kit.zip
Step 4.
As the fourth step, please unzip the installation package:
unzip zpanel-install-kit.zip
Step 5. 
As the step five, make the installation file executable:
# cd zpanel-install-kit
#chmod 777 centos-6-2-1.00.sh
Step 6. 
Congrats! You are ready to start the installation:
# ./centos-6-2-1.00.sh

While it installing, you may drink a cup of coffe

For the first login, please use the following information:

URL: your-ip-address
Username: zadmin
Password: password