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Self-host WordPress without a panel license

Managed WordPress hosts are selling you RAM, backups, and a UI. You can buy the RAM yourself. The UI is the panel. The backups are still your problem.

The cheap path

1. Rent a VPS (2 GB RAM is the floor for WP + mail + Docker; 4 GB is saner).
2. Point the domain’s A record (and later NS, if you use the panel DNS).
3. Install a panel on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 image.
4. Create a site, pick the WordPress stack, let it install.
5. Turn on Let’s Encrypt. Keep SSH keys. Take off-server backups.

mrmpanel’s WordPress stack

mrmpanel ships a WordPress compose stack and will auto-install it from the admin UI. Each site hostname gets its own container behind Traefik. That is nicer isolation than dumping ten WP installs into one Apache vhost tree — and it is also more moving parts (Docker, proxy labels, volumes).

Install current (latest from the mirror):

sudo bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://mrmpanel.hostingandstuff.online/install.sh)" -- --all

Why this is not “set and forget”

• WordPress still needs updates. The panel does not magically patch plugins.
• Mail on a VPS needs PTR, SPF, DKIM, and a provider that allows port 25.
• mrmpanel itself is experimental. Snapshot the VPS before you care.

VPS that can run this

Full steps: Ubuntu 24.04. Panel vs panel: Hestia vs mrmpanel, CyberPanel vs mrmpanel. Box sizing: cheap VPS. Notes: panel map.