CyberPanel — Your Hosting Control Panel

CyberPanel is the software behind the Control Panel on every Daedalus Design hosting plan. It is the place your website, email, databases, certificates and backups actually live. Most days you will never need to open it — DaeOne and our support team handle the routine work for you — but when you want to look under the bonnet, this is what you will find.

This guide is the technical companion to our plain-English Control Panel overview. If you just want to know what the dashboard does, start there. If you want to know CyberPanel specifically — how to log in, where each feature lives, and how it is built — read on.

What CyberPanel is

CyberPanel is an open-source web hosting control panel. It is used by millions of sites worldwide and, unlike older panels, it is built on the LiteSpeed web server — which is what makes sites hosted with us fast out of the box.

In practical terms, CyberPanel gives you a single browser dashboard for everything a hosting account needs: creating and managing websites, email inboxes, databases, SSL certificates, DNS records, backups and firewall rules. We run it on our own UK servers and tune it for you, so you get the power without the maintenance.

How to log in

Your welcome email includes a direct link to your Control Panel along with your username and a temporary password. If you ever need the address manually, CyberPanel is reached on port 8090:

https://your-domain.co.uk:8090

1. Open the link from your welcome email (or the address above) in any browser.
2. Enter the username and password we sent you.
3. Change the temporary password the first time you sign in, and turn on two-factor authentication if you plan to use the panel regularly.

Can't find your details, or the password isn't working? Contact support and we'll reset it for you — we never ask for your password by email.

The CyberPanel dashboard

When you sign in you land on the main dashboard, with server status at the top and a menu down the left. The sections you'll use most are:

Managing websites and files

Under Websites → List Websites you'll see every site on your account. Click one to reach its tools:

• File Manager — browse, upload, edit and download the files that make up your site, without needing FTP software.
• Launch — the summary screen for that site, with quick links to its email, databases and SSL.
• FTP — create FTP accounts if you'd rather use a desktop client such as FileZilla.

For AI-managed customers, you rarely need this — we publish changes for you through DaeOne. The file manager is there for the moments you want direct access.

Email accounts and webmail

CyberPanel handles email on your own domain. Under Email → Create Email you can add a mailbox such as hello@your-domain.co.uk, set its password and mailbox size, then read it in webmail or connect it to Outlook, Apple Mail or your phone.

• Create Email — add a new mailbox.
• Email Forwarding — send a copy of one address to another.
• Access Webmail — read and send email in the browser.

If your mail isn't arriving, check the DNS and deliverability records first — our team keeps SPF, DKIM and DMARC configured for you, so raise a ticket rather than editing these yourself.

Databases and phpMyAdmin

Dynamic sites — WordPress, for instance — store their content in a database. Under Databases you can create a database and a user, then manage the data directly in phpMyAdmin.

• Create Database — sets up a new MySQL/MariaDB database and user in one step.
• phpMyAdmin — a visual tool for browsing tables and running queries.

Static sites and most AI-managed sites don't use a database at all, which is part of why they're so fast and hard to break.

SSL certificates

Every site we host gets a free SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt, so visitors see the padlock and your site loads over HTTPS. CyberPanel issues and renews these automatically. Under SSL you can:

• Issue or reissue a certificate for a website or mail server.
• Force HTTPS so anyone visiting the insecure version is redirected to the secure one.

Certificates renew on their own before they expire — there's nothing you need to remember.

Backups and restores

CyberPanel can back up a website's files, databases and email together. Under Backup you can create a backup now, schedule regular ones, or send them to remote storage. Restoring rolls a site back to how it was at the time of the backup.

Security and firewall

CyberPanel ships with several layers of protection, and we keep them switched on:

• ModSecurity — a web application firewall that blocks common attacks before they reach your site.
• Firewall — controls which connections are allowed to the server.
• Login protection — guards the panel itself against brute-force attempts.

We manage these rules for you. If a legitimate action is ever blocked, support can adjust the rules quickly.

LiteSpeed cache and performance

Because CyberPanel runs on LiteSpeed, your site can use LiteSpeed Cache — server-level caching that serves pages far faster than a standard setup. For WordPress this pairs with the LiteSpeed Cache plugin; for static and AI-managed sites the speed is built in. The result is quicker load times, which visitors and search engines both reward.

CyberPanel vs DaeOne — which do I use?

They're not rivals — they sit at different layers. As a rule of thumb:

If you're not sure which one a task belongs in, just ask DaeOne or our team — we'll point you to the right place or do it for you.

Frequently asked questions