Goodbye CWP — I’m done for good

Completely agree with Jaspreet Singh.

This project seems to be dead, as we have not received any updates since Nov 2024, and there is no support on the forum either.

Some time ago, I contacted the CWP team, and they said they were working, but they blocked me then. There are a few members who are running the forum by just saying "CWP Team is working, CWP is not dead, blah blah, etc.." and a few of them are sharing their article users, but the actual CWP team doesn't bother looking at the forum.

It's time to move on

Project is NOT DEAD. Not sure why you keep posting that line...

CWP pushed an update today (2026-02-18)  0.9.8.1222.
And before that 0.9.8.1221 was pushed on 2026-02-02

It's personal preference if you want to stop using CWP and 'move on'

I've tested other panels, and they all have CVEs and can not be kept updated as easily as CWP can be.
Some don't even have the features CWP has, and cost $$$ more.

Can CWP do better with some things, yes.

I am also seeing these numbers are changing. which is great. if the number changes means update to you than its ok for you only. dont push it to others. your way of satisfaction and others will be not same. for example i personally needs a full professional description what is actually changed. not just the number. So please stop imposing your thought on others.

Goodbye CWP, I’m done for good.

Alright folks, this is my last post here.

I’m officially moving away from Control Web Panel and I’m not looking back. This isn’t a rage-quit. It’s a long-overdue “operations sanity” decision.

Why I’m leaving:

• Admins missing in action. Too often it feels like nobody is steering the ship.
  
• A few loud users run the forum. If you ask real questions, you get politics instead of answers.
  
• Support reality: Asking for help here is mostly useless and if you positively criticize something, some people act like you committed a crime.
  
• The usual reply: “Go buy a paid panel then.” Cool. That’s exactly what I did because when clients are paying me, I need reliability and support, not forum drama.
  
• Updates went for a toss: There hasn’t been a meaningful update in forever (feels like a year+). PHP updates feel like a wishful dream, roadmap talk stays talk, and the product momentum just isn’t there.
  
• Updates + security: CVEs get discovered fast… but fixes feel slow. And in between, you’re left patching holes with your own custom scripts just to keep things tight.
  
• DIY forever: Fixing loopholes and making things “production-safe” shouldn’t require custom scripts for half the stack, but here we are.
  
• DNS cluster (sorry): It’s not production-grade. I ended up writing my own DNS cluster scripts and they’ve been more stable and predictable than what I got out of the box.
  

My take (simple):
Open-source is amazing when it’s actively maintained and supported. 
But if you’re running a business, charging clients, or your uptime matters, then support and accountability aren’t “luxury items.” They’re the basics.

So yeah… I finally did it. Moved on. 
And honestly, if you’re reading this while firefighting the same stuff every week maybe you should consider it too.

No hate, no personal beef just facts from the trenches.

Wishing you all the best. 
Logging off for good...

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Jaspreet Singh

can you please suggest me which control panel you are using now or plan to switch?

I think they could at least put the forum behind some kind of DDOS protection like CloudFlare or whatever as a start. We can build form there 

Forum downtime actually feels self-inflicted because of 503 gateway errors. Nginx could be updated & tuned better and for sure php-fpm starvation is the root of the problem -- PHP on a PHP-heavy forum needs greater resources, caching, increased timeouts, etc. But for sure CF turnstile would be a great addition for DDoS protection.

What an irony 😄 — someone suggested that the CWP forum should be hosted on Cloudflare instead of running on CWP itself… and yet it still keeps going down from time to time.

You’d think the CWP developers, of all people, would have PHP tuned rock-solid so the forum stays up consistently if php resources were the issue.

Also, the change logs still aren’t being updated. Without clear change logs, it’s really hard for users to confirm — or properly audit — what’s being changed, whether from a functionality or a security standpoint. A bit more transparency here would go a long way to stop users abandoning the project in the short term.

There is no DDoS attack agains the forum. There is a CWP team that have no interest in fix the server where the forum is. That is a FACT.

The DDoS is a excuse. There is no record of a ddos attack anywhere. More, there is no record in HISTORY of a DDoS attack that goes by months... or now CWP is so special that even get to beat history of the internet? 

The server where the forum is hosted is outdated, with security issues and with misconfigurations. CWP team doesn't fix the issues because they have no interest in doing so. as with the CWP itself... and we can continue to discuss this, but there is no point.

CWP envangelist will ignore ALL the points made, and and continue to say that everything is fine even if CWP Team itself confirm that the panel is dead.

@Starburst will continue to provide guides in how to "fix this and that", in hope to get some attention - just look how this guy now have a forum dedicated to "help" cwp users. is trying to became somehow of a "god" to save CWP, but failing in that.

Many more continue to be here, where not even the CWP team is online, just in hope that something change, because they have all they business around CWP, and they cannot change that fact. So CWP must survive... must continue, or all they work will go by the drain. And they don't know more in how to fix that... When the time arrives, will be too late...

Many more continue to flock from CWP. There are MANY cwp alternatives, better, updated and strong. Free or paid.
CWP was unique, was great. Was. That is the word, is not anymore.