MHost is a self-hosted dashboard for managing WordPress® installations across multiple servers. It is specifically designed for WordPress®-server administrators running Plesk® or cPanel®.

Important

MHost requires root SSH access to your server(s) to manage your WordPress® sites. This is a power-tool for sysadmins to easily manage 100+ sites on many servers. It's thus not for webmasters on shared hosting platforms.

Warning

Alpha software: MHost is currently in alpha. There is no stable release yet, and breaking changes can happen.

Legal Disclaimer

MHost is an independent, open-source project. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by WordPress®, Automattic, Plesk, cPanel, or any of their trademarks.

• WordPress® is a trademark of the WordPress Foundation.
• Plesk is a trademark of Plesk International GmbH.
• cPanel is a trademark of cPanel, L.L.C.

Main Features

• Server inventory with SSH validation
• WordPress® site discovery (scan servers and collect sites)
• Site overview with last scan time and availability status (CVE score visibility coming soon)
• One-click WordPress® login helper
• WordPress® user operations (list users, change email, set/reset password)
• Plugin/theme management:
  • Inspect installed plugins/themes across sites
  • Upload private plugins/themes as ZIP files
  • Track versions and queue update jobs
  • Identify missing plugin/theme installations per site
• Monitoring with priority levels and event history, via e-mail, pushover and webhook

Why MHost

MHost is built for digital sovereignty. In an era of SaaS-dependency, MHost empowers you to maintain full control over your own infrastructure and data. It is fully open source and self-hosted, ensuring that you are never locked into a proprietary platform.

• Full Control: You own the data, the code, and the infrastructure.
• Single Docker image: Easy and uncomplicated to host on your own server.
• Persistent uploads and data via mounted volumes: Your data stays with you.

Run with Docker Image

Pull and run the current image:

docker run -d \
  --name mhost-tool \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e NODE_ENV=production \
  -e DATABASE_URL=file:/app/data/mhost.db \
  -e ADMIN_USERNAME=admin \
  -e ADMIN_PASSWORD=change-me \
  -v mhost_data:/app/data \
  -v mhost_uploads:/app/uploads \
  ghcr.io/nembestil/mhost-tool:main

Then open http://localhost:3000.

Environment Variables

Required:

• ADMIN_USERNAME: login username for the web UI
• ADMIN_PASSWORD: login password for the web UI

Optional:

• DATABASE_URL (default: file:./mhost.db)
  • In Docker, prefer file:/app/data/mhost.db and mount /app/data for persistence.
• NODE_ENV (recommended: production in Docker)

If you use docker-compose.yml in this repo, these host env vars are this way for built-in Coolify-compatibility with its magic variables. You must set these if you are not running Coolify.

• SERVICE_USER_APP -> used as ADMIN_USERNAME
• SERVICE_PASSWORD_APP -> used as ADMIN_PASSWORD

Local Development

Prerequisites

• Node.js 24+
• npm

1) Install dependencies

npm install

2) Configure environment

Create/update .env in the project root:

ADMIN_USERNAME=admin
ADMIN_PASSWORD=change-me

3) Apply migrations

npm run prisma:migrate

4) Start development server

npm run dev

App runs at http://localhost:3000.