Service Management — Starting, Stopping, and Monitoring Services
Panelica manages over 20 system services including web servers, databases, PHP, DNS, FTP, mail, and security tools. The Service Management page gives you full control over all of them from a single interface.
Accessing Service Management
From the sidebar, go to Monitoring → Service Management.
At the top, you will see four summary cards:
Service List
Services are organized by category. Each service row shows:
Controlling Services
Each service has action buttons:
You can also use the bulk action buttons at the top to Start All, Stop All, or Restart All services at once.
Boot Management
The Enable on Boot toggle controls whether a service starts automatically when the server reboots. This is useful for services you do not always need:
Managed Services
Panelica manages the following services:
Panelica manages over 20 system services including web servers, databases, PHP, DNS, FTP, mail, and security tools. The Service Management page gives you full control over all of them from a single interface.
Accessing Service Management
From the sidebar, go to Monitoring → Service Management.
At the top, you will see four summary cards:
- Total Services — The total number of managed services.
- Running — How many services are currently active.
- Stopped — How many are not running.
- System Health — Overall health percentage based on running vs. expected services.
Service List
Services are organized by category. Each service row shows:
- Service Name — The service identifier (e.g., Nginx, PostgreSQL, PHP-8.4).
- Status — A colored badge: green for running, red for stopped, yellow for error.
- Restart Policy — How the service behaves after a crash or reboot (always, unless-stopped, on-failure, or disabled).
- Ports — Which ports the service listens on.
- Enable on Boot — A toggle to control whether the service starts automatically when the server boots.
- Uptime — How long the service has been running.
Controlling Services
Each service has action buttons:
- Start — Start a stopped service.
- Stop — Stop a running service.
- Restart — Stop and immediately start the service again.
You can also use the bulk action buttons at the top to Start All, Stop All, or Restart All services at once.
Boot Management
The Enable on Boot toggle controls whether a service starts automatically when the server reboots. This is useful for services you do not always need:
- If you are not using email, you can disable Postfix and Dovecot at boot to save memory.
- If FTP is not needed, ProFTPD can stay disabled until you need it.
- Services can always be started manually from this page, regardless of their boot setting.
Managed Services
Panelica manages the following services:
- Web Servers — Nginx (panel), Nginx (customer sites), Apache
- PHP — PHP-FPM for each installed version (8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5)
- Databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis
- DNS — BIND (named)
- FTP — ProFTPD
- Email — Postfix (SMTP), Dovecot (IMAP/POP3), OpenDKIM
- Security — ClamAV (antivirus), Fail2ban (intrusion prevention)
- Monitoring — Panelica Monitoring
- Tools — phpMyAdmin, pgAdmin
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