Any Minecraft server admins here?

My 5 year old has a rented server that his mom set up. It's got a good 10-20 people on it pretty consistently. I don't know that much about it, but they were paying for a server and the server is crap.. so I'm putting the game on my server (I'm a web developer and have a cloud server). I already have the server and everything running (also have a teamspeak server running)

The server is linux based, right now I'm managing everything through ssh and using a screen for minecraft and server..

I was going to create a simple web based admin panel so the game admins can manage it. I've seen a few other options for managing minecraft but it looked like they were all paid.


Does anyone have any scripts to help admin the server, or a nulled server admin, or suggestions on setting up an admin page to manage it? I'm more of a web developer and not sysadmin, is running it through screen the best way to do it?

Thanks!