Free hosting your own website software for linux

GNU Hosting Helper is a web hosting management package. It is distributed under the GNU GPL (General Public License) Agreement.
This package provides tools to manage many of the aspects of a hosting environment.
GNU Hosting Helper also provides a client utility to reduce the need for staff to perform tasks that a client needs such as managing email accounts.
Main features:
Administrative Features
The features provided through the administrative interface include (but not limited to):
- Server Tasks
- Security Management
- Server Monitor
- Ticket Center
- News Management
- Knowledge Base
- Fraudscreen
- Domain Management
- User Management
- Billing/Accounting
- Account Information Tools
- Miscellaneous Functions
- Package Management
- Manage Hosting Servers
- Manage Client Interfaces
- Manage Mail Servers
- Manage Name Servers
- Manage Signup Servers
- Manage Server Pools
- Manage Administrators
- Manage Admin Daemon
- System Config
Client Features
The features provided thru the client interface include (but not limited to):
- Account Quickview
- Account Resources
- System Information
- Email Functions
- Virtual FTP Management
- Sub Domain Management
- SSL Certificate Management
- Website Management
- Front Page Extensions Management
- Stats and Logs access
- Account Management
- Account Billing
System/Network Support
GNU Hosting Helper currently supports management for the following software:
- Apache 1.3x and 2x
- Sendmail and Postfix
- Most major FPTD software
- BIND 8x and BIND 9x
- MySQL 3x and 4.0.x
Enhancements:
- Fixes an error with MyDNS where straight domains wouldnt resolve.
- Fixes an error with some systems rnd file creation for creating SSL CSR.
- Fixes an error representing bandwidth allotment, usage, and remaining.
- Fixes an error in the init.d file for the admin server daemon.
- Fixes an error with encryption when editing Webmail, signup, mail, and hosting servers.
- Adds SSH port specification and SSH daemon management to all managed servers.

Check Website is a performance monitoring and uptime notification tool. Check Website will check if a Website is up, and check the response time of the site.
The administrator can then choose to receive an email notification if the site is down, or if the site response time is too slow. All results are also written to a daily log file.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes some small bugs that caused hang ups in the program when checking Web sites.

AlternC is a set of user-friendly hosting software. AlternC Hosting Software is easy to install and based on open-source software only.
AlternC includes an automatic installation and configuration system, and a web-based control panel to manage users accounts and web services (e.g. domains, emails, ftp accounts, statistics...)
AlternC is based on the Debian GNU/Linux system (Woody version), and it requires other softwares such as Apache, Postfix, Mailman ...
It also contains a documented API, so you can customize your web panel quickly and easily.
AlternC was initially written in French. However, the debian package includes an English version. The translation of the project into other languages such as German and Spanish is in process. Volunteers are welcome ! (See the internationalization page). The documentation is only available in French (so far).
AlternC has been created by the system administrators of Lautre Net, members of Lautre Net and Globenet.
Enhancements:
- This release continues the Debian compliance challenge.
- Quota management was corrected, bind now forbids recursion and domain poisoning, and the Debian package uses po-debconf.
- New functions were also added, such as postfix saslauthd with rimap and MySQL user rights managment in the Web desktop.
- The .eu TLD is now properly handled.

Joshs Website Framework is a CMS framework for PHP Web developers. Joshs Website Framework consists of various subcomponents you can extract and use individually. SaxInterface provides an OO wrapper for SAX XML parsing.

The Auth Engine provides both level-based permissions (e.g., must be level 100 to access this page) and name-based permissions (e.g., must be in "editor" group to access this page).

Utilities include Mutex and SharedData classes (for interprocess communication), site-wide custom error handling, and the ability to take a site offline for maintenance.